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From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] config.txt: clarify sentences in the configuration and syntax sections
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240479482-31366-8-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240479482-31366-7-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>


Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1f17e7a..acd9b31 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ is used to store the information for that repository, and
 fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
 can be used to store system-wide defaults.
 
-They can be used by both the git plumbing
-and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where
-in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last
+The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing
+and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
+the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last
 dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
 dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric
 characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ in the section header, like in the example below:
 
 --------
 
-Subsection names can contain any character except newline (doublequote
-`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
-respectively) and are case sensitive.  Section headers cannot span multiple
+Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
+newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
+respectively).  Section headers cannot span multiple
 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.
-- 
1.6.2.3

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23  9:37 [PATCH 0/8] Doc updates to config, format-patch, show-branch Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:37 ` [PATCH 1/8] config.txt: remove pointer to SubmittingPatches Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:37   ` [PATCH 2/8] config.txt: add missing format.{subjectprefix,cc,attach} variables Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:37     ` [PATCH 3/8] Documentation: use lowercase for shallow and deep threading Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:37       ` [PATCH 4/8] git-show-branch.txt: cleanup example description Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:37         ` [PATCH 5/8] git-format-patch.txt: general rewordings and cleanups Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:38           ` [PATCH 6/8] config.txt: add missing 'the's and make words plural Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23  9:38             ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2009-04-23  9:38               ` [PATCH 8/8] config.txt: Make configuration paragraph more consistent Stephen Boyd
2009-04-23 12:14           ` [PATCH 5/8] git-format-patch.txt: general rewordings and cleanups Michael J Gruber
2009-04-23 16:16             ` [PATCHv2 " Stephen Boyd
2009-04-24 16:18               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-23 12:05   ` [PATCH 1/8] config.txt: remove pointer to SubmittingPatches Michael J Gruber
2009-04-23 16:03     ` Stephen Boyd

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