From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:17:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Doc/config.txt: explain repeated sections
Message-ID: <xmqqzicc6zbf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170710073229.mwf7zufx3xmszkde@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.