From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: milki Subject: Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:57:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20110825215757.GA94231@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20110818063528.GH13342@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20110825205849.GA10384@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 25 23:58:05 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qwhw4-0003mM-0L for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:58:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755548Ab1HYV56 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:57:58 -0400 Received: from hal.Rescomp.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.70.150]:54277 "EHLO hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755545Ab1HYV56 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:57:58 -0400 Received: by hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu (Postfix, from userid 1070) id B4B08119E67; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110825205849.GA10384@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 16:58 Thu 25 Aug , Jeff King wrote: > Is there a reason that you can't use the canonical version in your "git > config" invocation? Or was it simply confusing that it didn't work? I'd > much prefer to document this limitation in git-config(1) than change the > code. This was simply surprising as I was trying to figure out what exactly case sensitivity meant and how it affacted sections. This definitely clears this up for me. I'm actually working on a config parser because I don't think I've seen a complete implementation besides git-config in a different language.