Subject: Re: What means "git config bla ~/"?

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:01:39 +0900

Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]> writes:

> "Junio C Hamano" <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>>>> what's with that "git config bla ~/"? is this some config keyword
>>>> or something?
>>> ...
>>	git config section.var ~/some/thing
>> ...
>
> I prefer your "section.var" proposal above. I think people who really understand shell quoting do not need the explanations, and others probably need the example.
>
> While we're there, the formatting is also wrong ('' quoting, while we normally use `` quoting for shell commands).
>
> Sounds like a nice microproject for my students :-). A patch should follow soon.

OK, thanks.  Lest we forget, this is #leftoverbits for now.