Re: Should 'git config' support key with dot such as 'a.b'

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"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
>>
>>  > I find it is so annoying to write submodule definition as follows
>>  > (yeah, only url, without path)
>>  >
>>  > ------------------------------
>>  > [submodule 'crawler']
>>  >     url = url1
>>  > [submodule 'search']
>>  >     url = url2
>>  > ------------------------------
>>  >
>>  > I think the following form is more simple
>>  > ---------------------------------
>>  > [submodule]
>>  >      crawler.url = url1
>>  >      search.url = url2
>>  > ---------------------------------
>>  >
>>  > So, could we support such simpler form?
>>
>>  I don't like it at all.  Historically, we had much stricter rules on the
>>  variable names than the second part of the section names.
>>
>>  Also, your suggestion would make things even more confusing than beginners
>>  already complain Git is.

I am not interested in this at all.  I would usually say "it is not clear
what advantage this has", but in this case, I would rather say "it is
clear there is no advantage in this".
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