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Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:51:55

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
I'm not sure it makes sense to do so. I can see how:

  [section.SUBSECTION]

and

  [section.subsection]

should be merged. But isn't:

  [section "SUBSECTION"]

conceptually a different section entirely?
I still recall getting scolded by Linus after writing [sec.tion]; this was
way back when he was still active on this list. I essentially was told
that [sec "tion"] is _the_ only supported way, and [sec.tion] may work but
it purely does by accident, not by design.

Do we still even list the bogus [section.SUBSECTION] syntax anywhere in
our docs? If so, we should remove them and if not we simply just should
deprecate the code to read such input.
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