On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:45:45PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This is a sane thing to do, as "slot" is part of the name of the variable, > and we generally do not warn upon seeing a misspelled variable name (it > makes it worse that "func" is not even misspelled but merely unknown to > older version of git in your scenario). > > On the other hand, I suspect that most people would apprecfiate if their > git pointed out "diff.color.finc? What do you mean?" before they waste > 30 minutes wondering why the new feature in 1.6.6 does not work for them. I would be more sympathetic to that user if this weren't the _only_ set of variables with this property. They don't get warned for diff.externel or color.show-branch. If we are going to declare subsets of the namespace as "complete" (and warn about unknown keys in them), then we should probably be more thorough about it (but I don't personally think that is a good idea, as version portability is IMHO more useful). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html