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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] config: add --literal-match option
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:46:43 +0100
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Jeff King wrote:

> +--literal-match::
> +
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Some invocations of git-config will limit their=
 actions based on
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0matching a config value to a regular expression=
=2E If this option
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0is used, then any such matches are done as a st=
ring comparison
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0rather than as a regular expression match.
> +

Why this option is not named --fixed-strings, as everywhere else, then?

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Jakub Narebski
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