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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:28:09 +0200
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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I would suggest a much more readable format:
> 
> [core]
> ...
> 
> [branch "core"]
> ...
> 
> [remote "core"]
> ...
> 
> and yes, enforce the <space>+<quoted name> format. We'd turn it internally
> into some random internal string format (probably replacing the space with
> a dot, and removing the quotes, so it would become "remote.core.<key>").

I'm all for it. Nice compromise of [branch."miXedCaps"] and ["miXedCaps"],
human readable end editable, and easy parsable.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland