Re: Should 'git config' support key with dot such as 'a.b'

"Ping Yin" [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi,



 On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

 > I find it is so annoying to write submodule definition as follows
 > (yeah, only url, without path)
 >
 > ------------------------------
 > [submodule 'crawler']
 >     url = url1
 > [submodule 'search']
 >     url = url2
 > ------------------------------
 >
 > I think the following form is more simple
 > ---------------------------------
 > [submodule]
 >      crawler.url = url1
 >      search.url = url2
 > ---------------------------------
 >
 > So, could we support such simpler form?

 I don't like it at all.  Historically, we had much stricter rules on the
 variable names than the second part of the section names.

 Also, your suggestion would make things even more confusing than beginners
 already complain Git is.

I am not interested in this at all.  I would usually say "it is not clear
what advantage this has", but in this case, I would rather say "it is
clear there is no advantage in this".