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authorLibor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>2012-03-01 11:59:45 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-03-01 08:22:24 -0800
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Documentation fixes in git-config
Variable names must start with an alphabetic character, regexp config key matching has its limits, sentence grammar. Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -85,8 +85,11 @@ OPTIONS
is not exactly one.
--get-regexp::
- Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression.
- Also outputs the key names.
+ Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression and
+ writes out the key names. Regular expression matching is currently
+ case-sensitive and done against a canonicalized version of the key
+ in which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection
+ names are not.
--global::
For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than