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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 20:08:41 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 8 May 2006, sean wrote:
> 
> What's the advantage of section quotation marks over just allowing these
> characters in regular section names?  To be specific, what is wrong with:
> 
>    [jc/show-branch-dense]

This would _suck_

What if you have a branch called "core"? Not all all unlikely. 

Think about what a section like

	[core]

really means.

Plus I really want to not be case sensitive by default. Case sensitivity 
really is _not_ normal for this kind of config file syntax.

			Linus