config.txt: clarify sentences in the configuration and syntax sections
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stephen Boyd committed
Apr 23, 2009 at 02:38 UTC
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@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ is used to store the information for that repository, and
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fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
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can be used to store system-wide defaults.
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-They can be used by both the git plumbing
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-and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where
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-in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last
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+The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing
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+and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
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+the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last
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dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
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dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric
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characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ in the section header, like in the example below:
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-Subsection names can contain any character except newline (doublequote
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-`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
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-respectively) and are case sensitive. Section headers cannot span multiple
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+Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
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+newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
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+respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
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lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
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You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
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don't need to.