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git cvsimport and case-insensitive config

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 30, 2010, 08:32 UTC
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<hoscv7$hmn$1@dough.gmane.org>
Hello all,

I just noticed that there's an annoying buglet in the way git cvsimport stores its configuration and the case-insensitive key lookup done by git.

git cvsimport looks for cvsimport.* single-letter keys that match the command-line option (e.g. cvsimport.r for -r). However, since there are some single-letter options which only differ by case (a vs A, r vs R) if you set either you get annoying messages (and potentially also odd results, although I haven't come across these yet).

I come with no patch because I'm not really sure what would be the best approach at fixing this. Changing the way cvsimport matches config to command-line options? An option to make git-config case-sensitive re. key names? Something else?

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