From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:08:02 GMT
Subject: Re: What means "git config bla ~/"?
Message-ID: <xmqqfub1m6u5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171002171300.GP19555@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> what's with that "git config bla ~/"? is this some config keyword
>> or something?
> ...
>
> I agree with you that it is less clear than it could be.  Ideas for
> clarifying it?

Yeah, if it were

	git config section.var ~/some/thing

that would be far clearer than "bla" that what we see is a mere
placeholder.

Another obvious option is to remove the parenthetical comment.

Or "(but you can give values without quoting and let your shell
expand it)", without a confusing sample command that proved not to
help very much.