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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-03 20:03:50 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-04 11:42:33 -0800
commit05c3e5c7719a4b25237d00a696877bdd47488678 (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'jk/dotgit-case-maint-1.8.5' into maint-1.8.5 (diff)
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Documentation/config.txt: avoid unnecessary negation
Section names and variable names are both case-insensitive, but one is described as "not case sensitive". Use "case-insensitive" for both. Instead of saying "... have to be escaped" without telling what that escaping achieves, state it in a more positive way, i.e. "... can be included by escaping". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 097fdd47e1..dbe7035533 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ blank lines are ignored.
The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with
the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
-section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. Only alphanumeric
+section begins. Section names are case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric
characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable
must belong to some section, which means that there must be a section
header before the first setting of a variable.
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ in the section header, like in the example below:
--------
Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
-newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
-respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
+newline (doublequote `"` and backslash can be included by escaping them
+as `\"` and `\\`, respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to.