From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
rpjday@crashcourse.ca, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What means "git config bla ~/"?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:01:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd163ftng.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1964024229.332266.1507031152104.JavaMail.zimbra@matthieu-moy.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:45:52 +0200 (CEST)")
Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> writes:
> "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> what's with that "git config bla ~/"? is this some config keyword
>>>> or something?
>>> ...
>> git config section.var ~/some/thing
>> ...
>
> I prefer your "section.var" proposal above. I think people who really understand shell quoting do not need the explanations, and others probably need the example.
>
> While we're there, the formatting is also wrong ('' quoting, while we normally use `` quoting for shell commands).
>
> Sounds like a nice microproject for my students :-). A patch should follow soon.
OK, thanks. Lest we forget, this is #leftoverbits for now.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-04 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-02 10:13 What means "git config bla ~/"? rpjday
2017-10-02 14:06 ` René Scharfe
2017-10-02 17:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-03 0:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 11:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2017-10-04 4:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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