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Subject: Re: is it "core.excludesfile" or "core.excludesFile"?
To:     "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   more pedantic nitpickery, but the git source/docs seems to bounce
> all over the place as to which of those forms is the right one.
> opinions?

In the code we use all lowercase to compare (any input is converted to
lowercase);
in the docs we try to come up with a sufficient cameLcase to not
confuse the user.
In tests, I don't know?