Re: should config options be treated as case-sensitive?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Wed, 23 May 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> >> If the documention does not make it clear, then we have
> >> documentation bug ...
> >
> >   personally, i would add a short, really emphatic note at the top of
> > "man git-config" pointing this out -- i wouldn't require people to
> > read all the way down to "Syntax" to learn this. an example just like
> > the one you provide above would be perfect, with an extra line
> > pointing out that the documentation uses "camel case" for nothing more
> > than readability.
>
> Unfortunately, that line of thinking leads us to madness, as you are
> exhibiting the typical symptom of "my today's immediate itch is the
> most important one in the world"-itis.  Tomorrow you would start
> saying that we must have a short, really emphatic note at the top
> that says that the second level name can even have spaces, and on
> the day after that, you would instead have a note that says that you
> cannot use an underscore in the name, and continuing that line of
> thought will lead us to fill the top part of the documentation with
> 47 different short and emphatic sentences.  Let's not go there.

  fair enough, point taken.

rday

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