# Make git config variable names case-insensitive

1 messages from 2005-10-12 to 2005-10-12. Participants: Linus Torvalds.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2077

## Linus Torvalds, 2005-10-12 01:09

Subject: Make git config variable names case-insensitive
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510111803540.14597@g5.osdl.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0510111803540.14597%40g5.osdl.org

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They always were meant to be case-insensitive, but I had missed one 
"tolower()", making that not true.

The actual _values_ aren't case-insensitive, of course, although some uses 
of them may be (ie boolean parsing uses "strcasecmp()" to match against 
the strings "true" and "false").

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This should independent of the other patch - it should apply whether 
you've taken the [user]name/email config thing or not. But it was 
generated on top of that change.


diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index cf80358..9b7c6f2 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int git_parse_file(config_fn_t fn
 		}
 		if (!isalpha(c))
 			break;
-		var[baselen] = c;
+		var[baselen] = tolower(c);
 		if (get_value(fn, var, baselen+1) < 0)
 			break;
 	}

```