# \[PATCH v8 3/3\] config: require lowercase for branch.\*.autosetupmerge

- From: Josh Steadmon \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-12-21 03:30:37 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/12/7916430
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/09/7901746/t.md

```text
Although we only documented that branch.*.autosetupmerge would accept
"always" as a value, the actual implementation would accept any
combination of upper- or lower-case. Fix this to be consistent with
documentation and with other values of this config variable.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <redacted>
---
 config.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 152c94f29d..54c0e7d98e 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ static int git_default_i18n_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 static int git_default_branch_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 {
 	if (!strcmp(var, "branch.autosetupmerge")) {
-		if (value && !strcasecmp(value, "always")) {
+		if (value && !strcmp(value, "always")) {
 			git_branch_track = BRANCH_TRACK_ALWAYS;
 			return 0;
 		} else if (value && !strcmp(value, "inherit")) {
-- 
2.34.1.307.g9b7440fafd-goog

```