# is it "core.excludesfile" or "core.excludesFile"? 3 messages from 2017-10-05 to 2017-10-06. Participants: Robert P. J. Day, Stefan Beller, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46920 ## Robert P. J. Day, 2017-10-05 21:25 Subject: is it "core.excludesfile" or "core.excludesFile"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.21.1710051724350.2478%40localhost.localdomain ``` 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? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== ``` ## Stefan Beller, 2017-10-05 21:32 Subject: Re: is it "core.excludesfile" or "core.excludesFile"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAGZ79kZof3SWE_Pyb1ADVtkfD2%2B9ukV%2BnNBgwxt6xa52Vrmk6A%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day 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? ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2017-10-06 00:47 Subject: Re: is it "core.excludesfile" or "core.excludesFile"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqvajt5cg8.fsf%40gitster.mtv.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: ``` Stefan Beller writes: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day 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. ```