On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 04:50:57AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:14:12PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > $ git config --global a.b.c.d.e rday > > > > > > huh ... seemed to work fine, and added this to my ~/.gitconfig: > > > > > > [a "b.c.d"] > > > e = rday > > > > > > as i see it, the first component is intgerpreted as the section > > > name, the last component is the variable/key(?) name, and > > > everything in between is treated as subsection(s), which is not at > > > all obvious from that Doc file, or from "man git-config". > > > > Yep, your understanding is correct. > > just to be precise regarding terminology, in my example above, is > "b.c.d" a single subsection, or does it refer to three subsections? > i'm guessing it refers to a single subsection, which is fine with me, > as long as it's very clearly explained that way in the docs. It's a single subsection. Each config key at most one subsection. -Peff
