Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow '-' in config variable names

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 31, 2006, 03:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610301922020.25218@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyd5rxvg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> One thing I forgot to add.  Just like we downcase what user has
> written in config file, it might make sense to also remove '-'
> (and if we add '_' to keychar set, that one as well) to when
> canonicalizing the key value.  That way, somewhat awkward long
> configuration variables we currently have can be written more
> readably, e.g. repack.use-delta-base-offset

Well, then we need to teach "git <alias>" that "git <al-i-as>" is the same thing as "alias".

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> > By the way, everybody seems to do "alias.xxx = -p cat-file -p"
> > (I have it as "git less").  Maybe we would want to make a
> > built-in alias for that?
> 
> Seconds?

I like it mainly as a great example of how to use aliases, not because I actually much -use- the thing, so I don't personally care.