git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax
commitbff7df7a87a775d931dc40e6f7058966f53f1fc8
authorStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Wed, 8 Aug 2018 19:50:20 +0000 (8 12:50 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:26:48 +0000 (8 13:26 -0700)
treecdb064a784e9a0effc2b59ac83123e8bdb2a9a1d
parent2d84f13dcb67762c2506e71232556e196f32600b
git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax

The bug was noticed when writing the previous patch; a fix for this bug
is not easy though: If we choose to ignore the case of the subsection
(and revert most of the code of the previous patch, just keeping
s/strncasecmp/strcmp/), then we'd introduce new sections using the
new syntax, such that

 --------
   [section.subsection]
     key = value1
 --------

  git config section.Subsection.key value2

would result in

 --------
   [section.subsection]
     key = value1
   [section.Subsection]
     key = value2
 --------

which is even more confusing. A proper fix would replace the first
occurrence of 'key'. As the syntax is deprecated, let's prefer to not
spend time on fixing the behavior and just document it instead.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-config.txt