From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, T_DKIM_INVALID shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277771F42D for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2018 20:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752653AbeFAUQY (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2018 16:16:24 -0400 Received: from cpanel4.indieserve.net ([199.212.143.9]:43630 "EHLO cpanel4.indieserve.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751835AbeFAUQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2018 16:16:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=crashcourse.ca; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Subject: To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=2FwTDVarSxfg0GQxq4BVIBeAPMiasTIts6dbOPtl+uo=; b=RrcAgvZJrFT8ufjeHWpa86eGkx TNi6+hC8V/d9iUfeTipAe+ACgFmM7YSUHaDWP7cbB0MLG5wbygkgZnuXIlHfbNIRb4ZDOYneOGZZr 8EDYqegI+BGmcUtRihYhUWZX9YxEXeqVpLkCHe38xScsYGxknEClEWnT2shURSw9A/p4F5y5Yr4ys AzFNYji5jIB2QCMS1zW2lBThg1yGAGZ85kbAoXNvdr/kj2wl3ZR68Sjub5dJIem7VMsX8FRmNgHMl XjWHSS5RQhJKsjA98V+0KTWr/m5GsYolwvxXzZAEiq9rS8BsEmuArQQtHBsswoNs9RCwI0t5YeHzR yHhaMWXA==; Received: from cpef81d0f814063-cmf81d0f814060.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.114.57.56]:34560 helo=localhost.localdomain) by cpanel4.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1fOqTE-00BnPT-Ud for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:16:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 16:14:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Git Mailing list Subject: how exactly can git config section names contain periods? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel4.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel4.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel4.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org more oddities in my travels, this from Doc.../config.txt: "The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next section begins. Section names are case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. ^ ????? what? how can section names contain periods? reading further, "Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section name, in the section header, like in the example below: -------- [section "subsection"] ok, so how on earth would i use "git config" at the command line to set a config variable with some arbitrary level of subsections? let's try this: $ git config --global a.b.c.d.e rday huh ... seemed to work fine, and added this to my ~/.gitconfig: [a "b.c.d"] e = rday as i see it, the first component is intgerpreted as the section name, the last component is the variable/key(?) name, and everything in between is treated as subsection(s), which is not at all obvious from that Doc file, or from "man git-config". and if a section name can contain periods, how would you specify that at the command line? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================