Re: is it "core.excludesfile" or "core.excludesFile"?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 6, 2017, 00:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvajt5cg8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZof3SWE_Pyb1ADVtkfD2+9ukV+nNBgwxt6xa52Vrmk6A@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>
>>   more pedantic nitpickery, but the git source/docs seems to bounce
>> all over the place as to which of those forms is the right one.
>> opinions?
>
> In the code we use all lowercase to compare (any input is converted to
> lowercase);
> in the docs we try to come up with a sufficient cameLcase to not
> confuse the user.
> In tests, I don't know?

Unless the test is about making sure that section.var and SecTion.Var are treated the same (and section.subsection.var and section.subSection.var are treated differently), it is preferrable to use multiWordSection.multiWordVar in tests for consistency and for documentation value.