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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper
	routine
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:23:10 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:23:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Have you read "man git-config" lately?
> 
> That whole program is there just for scripting. Of _course_ it talks about 
> the machine format!

Forget the command git-config; all of the config _variables_ are
documented in "foo.bar" form. Name one place in all of the documentation
where the user can find out about core.pager, but the "foo.bar" form is
not used.

-Peff