@leroysheep / MovieWebApp / commits / 2ad33ea6b5

alias: prepare for subsection aliases

Switch git_unknown_cmd_config() from skip_prefix() to parse_config_key() for alias parsing. This properly handles the three-level config key structure and prepares for the new alias.*.command subsection syntax in the next commit. This is a compatibility break: the alias configuration parser used to be overly permissive and accepted "alias.<subsection>.<key>" as defining an alias "<subsection>.<key>". With this change, alias.<subsection>.<key> entries are silently ignored (unless <key> is "command", which will be given meaning in the next commit). This behavior was arguably a bug, since config subsections were never intended to work this way for aliases, and aliases with dots in their names have never been documented or intentionally supported. Signed-off-by: Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes.page> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jonatan Holmgren committed Feb 18, 2026 at 22:57 UTC 2ad33ea6b5c0a5670a757c9b594cc07321324e80

1 file changed +7 -3

help.c

+7 -3

index 84b9e5efe4..a781ebb98d 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ static int git_unknown_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) { struct help_unknown_cmd_config *cfg = cb; - const char *p; + const char *subsection, *key; + size_t subsection_len; if (!strcmp(var, "help.autocorrect")) { int v = parse_autocorrect(value); @@ -589,8 +590,11 @@ static int git_unknown_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value, } /* Also use aliases for command lookup */ - if (skip_prefix(var, "alias.", &p)) - add_cmdname(&cfg->aliases, p, strlen(p)); + if (!parse_config_key(var, "alias", &subsection, &subsection_len, + &key)) { + if (!subsection) + add_cmdname(&cfg->aliases, key, strlen(key)); + } return 0; }