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On Sun, 7 May 2006 17:55:25 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 May 2006, sean wrote:
> > 
> > Having magic sections that prepend "branch." seems a bit suspect;
> > why not just be explicit:
> > 
> >   [branch.Origin]
> >       URL = ...
> >       fetch = master
> 
> Exactly because section (and key) names are normally not case sensitive.

Restore case sensitivity to config file parsing and the problem largely goes
away.  Or go the other route and remove case sensitivity from all the other 
bits (branches names etc..).

Sean