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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 21:04:39 -0400
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On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 17:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 7 May 2006, sean wrote:
> > 
> > Having magic sections that prepend "branch." seems a bit suspect;
> > why not just be explicit:
> > 
> >   [branch.Origin]
> >       URL = ...
> >       fetch = master
> 
> Exactly because section (and key) names are normally not case sensitive.
> 
> Even the documentation actually talks about "core.fileMode" and "[imap] 
> Folders". 

Make it ["branch.Origin"]

No hardcoded "branch" prepending needed.  The case sensitive name is
still protected by quotes.  This extends trivially to ["user.Linus"] or
["path./src/git.c"] or whatever.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin