From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how exactly can git config section names contain periods?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 17:55:38 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1806011754510.14826@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180601210731.GA20974@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Jeff King wrote:
> This is mentioned later:
>
> 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.
> This has been deprecated since 2011. Maybe it's time to finally get
> rid of it.
seven years seems sufficient for deprecation.
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-01 20:14 how exactly can git config section names contain periods? Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-01 20:50 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-06-01 21:07 ` Jeff King
2018-06-01 21:55 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2018-06-01 23:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-02 0:02 ` Jeff King
2018-06-02 8:50 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-02 9:26 ` Jeff King
2018-06-03 9:53 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-03 10:35 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-06-03 10:35 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-04 12:09 ` Jeff King
2018-06-03 10:44 ` Johannes Sixt
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