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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: astian <astian@eclipso.at>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Doc/config.txt: explain repeated sections
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:17:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzicc6zbf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170710073229.mwf7zufx3xmszkde@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2017 03:32:29 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> FWIW, the use of "multivalued" here tickled my spider sense, too. I
> think when talking on the list we generally reserve "multivalued" for
> true "we expect this to be a list" variables. But the only mention of
> "multivalued" in the config documentation seems to be:
>
>   Some variables may appear multiple times; we say then that the
>   variable is multivalued.
>
> I think the proposed use is consistent with that (and that line is only
> 2 paragraphs above the proposed paragraph).

Thanks for careful reading.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-10 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-08 20:34 [PATCH 0/4] Misc. documentation fixes astian
2017-07-08 20:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] Doc/config.txt: explain repeated sections astian
2017-07-08 23:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-09  7:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-10  7:32       ` Jeff King
2017-07-10 16:17         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-07-08 20:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] Doc/config.txt: fix typos astian
2017-07-08 20:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] Doc/git-send-email.txt: clarify a couple of options astian
2017-07-08 20:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] Doc/config.txt: fix documentation for smtpEncryption astian
2017-07-08 23:09   ` Junio C Hamano

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