Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> The parse_config_key() function was introduced to make it
> easier to match "section.subsection.key" variables. It also
> handles the simpler "section.key", and the caller is
> responsible for distinguishing the two from its
> out-parameters.
>
> Most callers who _only_ want "section.key" would just use a
> strcmp(var, "section.key"), since there is no parsing
> required. However, they may still use parse_config_key() if
> their "section" variable isn't a constant (an example of
> this is in parse_hide_refs_config).
Perhaps "only" at the end of the title?
After grepping for call sites of this function, I think we can
simplify quite a few instances of:
if (parse_config_key(...) || !name)
return ...;
