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Re: [PATCH 1/4] Doc/config.txt: explain repeated sections

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2017, 16:17 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> FWIW, the use of "multivalued" here tickled my spider sense, too. I
> think when talking on the list we generally reserve "multivalued" for
> true "we expect this to be a list" variables. But the only mention of
> "multivalued" in the config documentation seems to be:
>
>   Some variables may appear multiple times; we say then that the
>   variable is multivalued.
>
> I think the proposed use is consistent with that (and that line is only
> 2 paragraphs above the proposed paragraph).
Thanks for careful reading.
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Message 6 of 10 in “Misc. documentation fixes”
  1. 0/4 Misc. documentation fixesastian, Jul 8, 2017
  2. 1/4 Doc/config.txt: explain repeated sectionsastian, Jul 8, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2017
  5. Jeff KingJul 10, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2017
  7. 2/4 Doc/config.txt: fix typosastian, Jul 8, 2017
  8. 3/4 Doc/git-send-email.txt: clarify a couple of optionsastian, Jul 8, 2017
  9. 4/4 Doc/config.txt: fix documentation for smtpEncryptionastian, Jul 8, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2017

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