On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Jeff King wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:14:12PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > ok, so how on earth would i use "git config" at the command line > > > > to set a config variable with some arbitrary level of subsections? > > > > let's try this: > > > > > > You don't. There are only three levels: section, (optional) > > > subsection, and key. If there is a subsection, it consists of > > > _everything_ between the two outer periods. > > <snip> > > > if (for some weird reason) i wanted to define a multi-level > > subsection, > > You can't, there are no multi-level subsections, see above. no, i *get* that, what i was asking was if i wanted to simulate or emulate such a thing ... or is that just getting too weird and there is no compelling reason to want to go down that road? (which i am totally prepared to accept.) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================