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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-20 12:41:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-20 12:41:32 -0700 |
| commit | 2a2c18f1c3ae3fbade32df11719f24e8d6a6709c (patch) | |
| tree | feddd20937d368bfd32354954f31dcfc026b3833 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ab/submodule-relative-url-tests' (diff) | |
| parent | git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2a2c18f1c3ae3fbade32df11719f24e8d6a6709c.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'sb/config-write-fix'
Recent update to "git config" broke updating variable in a
subsection, which has been corrected.
* sb/config-write-fix:
git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax
config: fix case sensitive subsection names on writing
t1300: document current behavior of setting options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-config.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 18ddc78f42..8e240435be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -453,6 +453,27 @@ http.sslverify false include::config.txt[] +BUGS +---- +When using the deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax, changing a value +will result in adding a multi-line key instead of a change, if the subsection +is given with at least one uppercase character. For example when the config +looks like + +-------- + [section.subsection] + key = value1 +-------- + +and running `git config section.Subsection.key value2` will result in + +-------- + [section.subsection] + key = value1 + key = value2 +-------- + + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |