From f737632938868adaa0e8f777235e8e15d40ab14c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Carlos=20Mart=C3=ADn=20Nieto?= Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:52:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Using the [section.subsection] syntax, the subsection is transformed to lower-case and is matched case sensitively. Say so in the documentation and mention that you shouldn't be using it anyway. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d82c0da2cf..fd998dd37c 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 -- 2.11.4.GIT