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Subject: Re: how exactly can git config section names contain periods?
To:     "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
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From:   Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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Am 03.06.2018 um 11:53 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> if i wanted to do something this admittedly awkward, would using
> periods give me some benefit related to, i don't know, regex matching,
> as compared to using a different character? or am i just way
> overthinking this? is anyone out there actually taking advantage of
> multi-level subsections?

There is nothing wrong with having all of these

     git config foo.a.b.c.key value
     git config foo.a.b.c value
     git config foo.a.b.key value

in a single configuration file, I think. There is nothing special there. 
They're three different settings in two different (sub-)sections.

-- Hannes