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  Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does
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Junio C Hamano
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@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to. don't need to.
There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax. There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
names. compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
restrictions as section names.
All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form