From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Boyd Subject: [PATCH 7/8] config.txt: clarify sentences in the configuration and syntax sections Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:01 -0700 Message-ID: <1240479482-31366-8-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> References: <1240479482-31366-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <1240479482-31366-2-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <1240479482-31366-3-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <1240479482-31366-4-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <1240479482-31366-5-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <1240479482-31366-6-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <1240479482-31366-7-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 23 11:40:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LwvQA-0001FG-Rz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:40:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754492AbZDWJid (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:38:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754430AbZDWJic (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:38:32 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.236]:7604 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754378AbZDWJia (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:38:30 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so392313rvb.1 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to:references; bh=qIzFvcOQTwo77lBEapwpOweghflzLNOgAGUi2el9VVo=; b=XoMtHDbDXOAIuWokkZNI/5Y+eJGnhQ6ucJZwoDu+1z3qlfJvrjPD6guQ8ImbyeHCSU Ay1CkIioubsNli1vZ84F830fqe9R1e5YFcH9CQ/c+OBHiySOXkU5SyhU9cLWfwGNYTMy DEgGGOqRtFZsWMew1Ysl8qIiWld/J3fQpyMkM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to:references; b=PIN1CLAwGlylzl5MCZbmZcMO3nWlhgU/XlNtoDjymJZq4fsBkp2fxKtBMewSfH0BMu 8Sb7Ajcrnp4aGUCHHZdw5LlrKlkFY1hJduMrBmvtl85fHR2NjzsQsqoAQ0M9ioMRGB05 oh4cwZbLAFSOBocpu4hsQ9AijZPUgIqc4EZ98= Received: by 10.142.217.17 with SMTP id p17mr284175wfg.201.1240479510788; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth ([76.89.212.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm2633633wfi.12.2009.04.23.02.38.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by earth (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:26 -0700 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.2.3 In-Reply-To: <1240479482-31366-7-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd --- Documentation/config.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1f17e7a..acd9b31 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ is used to store the information for that repository, and fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` can be used to store system-wide defaults. -They can be used by both the git plumbing -and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where -in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last +The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing +and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein +the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times. @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ in the section header, like in the example below: -------- -Subsection names can contain any character except newline (doublequote -`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`, -respectively) and are case sensitive. Section headers cannot span multiple +Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except +newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`, +respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't need to. -- 1.6.2.3