From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:46:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20111012174643.GA14336@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1318434726-5556-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de> <20111012162939.GA3055@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Carlos =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= Nieto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 12 19:46:53 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 1RE2tG-0002vt-AV for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:46:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753720Ab1JLRqq (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:46:46 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:58601 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102Ab1JLRqp (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:46:45 -0400 Received: (qmail 12999 invoked by uid 107); 12 Oct 2011 17:46:48 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:46:48 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:46:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111012162939.GA3055@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > The explanation matches what we do now, but it did end up a bit longer > than I had hoped. We could make it a lot shorter by: > > 1. Canonicalizing the section and key names that the caller gives to > git-config. Hmm. Scratch that. We seem to do this already in my tests. I'll look further and try to make a better documentation patch. -Peff