Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 9, 2006, 03:08 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605082007100.3718@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP04C9C4BF5B89E55B9D877AAEA90@CEZ.ICE>

On Mon, 8 May 2006, sean wrote:

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> 
> What's the advantage of section quotation marks over just allowing these
> characters in regular section names?  To be specific, what is wrong with:
> 
>    [jc/show-branch-dense]

This would _suck_

What if you have a branch called "core"? Not all all unlikely.

Think about what a section like

	[core]

really means.

Plus I really want to not be case sensitive by default. Case sensitivity really is _not_ normal for this kind of config file syntax.

			Linus