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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-10-21 16:04:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-10-21 16:04:33 -0700 |
| commit | abe277301996d4b30f2c8f48cf92dcf677af783d (patch) | |
| tree | 49e8332528f8fca9a6ae929c3e8afdff0bd8e53a | |
| parent | 207095063379065f2894c091c8909269a00ed44a (diff) | |
| parent | f737632938868adaa0e8f777235e8e15d40ab14c (diff) | |
| download | git-abe277301996d4b30f2c8f48cf92dcf677af783d.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'cn/doc-config-bare-subsection'
* cn/doc-config-bare-subsection:
Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b30c7e6278..9c81fffc61 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't need to. -There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax. -In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section -names. +There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this +syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also +compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same +restrictions as section names. All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form |