On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:46:43PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > +--literal-match:: > > + > > + Some invocations of git-config will limit their actions based on > > + matching a config value to a regular expression. If this option > > + is used, then any such matches are done as a string comparison > > + rather than as a regular expression match. > > + > > Why this option is not named --fixed-strings, as everywhere else, then? Because I never use --fixed-strings anywhere else and didn't think of it? :) I think, though, that there is a key difference, and using that name would lead to confusion. In grep, --fixed-strings means "find this fixed _substring_ within the input" whereas this option means "find the value that is byte-for-byte equal to this." -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
