On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 06:35:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > 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.) You can do whatever you like with the subsection; its contents are generally dependent on the semantics of the key. E.g., remote.<remotename>.*, branch.<branchname>.*. That's why Git tries to be permissive with the syntax. So you are free to consider "foo.a.b.c.key" as some kind of multi-level hierarchy if that's useful to you. But you won't get any tool support from Git, and I don't think there is any compelling reason to use "." versus some other syntax (except that it perhaps looks better to the user). -Peff
