Re: should config options be treated as case-sensitive?

>
> On Tue, May 22 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   in my wanderings, more oddities, such as this:
> >
> > $ grep -ir blankboundary *
> > builtin/blame.c:	if (!strcmp(var, "blame.blankboundary")) {
> > Documentation/config.txt:blame.blankBoundary::
> > Documentation/blame-options.txt:	be controlled via the `blame.blankboundary` config option.
> > Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt: * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
> > Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt: * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
> > $
> >
> > where you can see the single instance of "blankBoundary" in
> > Doc/config.txt (with the upper case 'B'), while the rest have no such
> > thing.
> >
> >   for fun, i checked another of blame's config settings, with similar
> > results:
> >
> > builtin/blame.c:	if (!strcmp(var, "blame.showemail")) {
> > Documentation/config.txt:blame.showEmail::
> > Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt: * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
> > Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt: * "git blame" learned blame.showEmail configuration variable.
> > Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt: * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
> > Documentation/git-blame.txt:	This can also be controlled via the `blame.showEmail` config
> > t/t8002-blame.sh:test_expect_success 'setup showEmail tests' '
> > t/t8002-blame.sh:test_expect_success 'blame with showemail options' '
> > t/t8002-blame.sh:test_expect_success 'blame with showEmail config false' '
> > t/t8002-blame.sh:	git config blame.showEmail false &&
> > t/t8002-blame.sh:test_expect_success 'blame with showEmail config true' '
> > t/t8002-blame.sh:	git config blame.showEmail true &&
> >
> >   thoughts?
>
> The issues you note about the docs using foo.barbaz instead of
> foo.barBaz should be fixed, but as noted in the "Syntax" section of
> "git-config" we already document that the config keys are all
> case-insensitive. We just like talking about them as foo.barBaz
> because it makes for easier reading.