more oddities in my travels, this from Doc.../config.txt:
"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 case-insensitive. Only
alphanumeric characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names.
^ ?????
what? how can section names contain periods? reading further,
"Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a
subsection put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the
section name, in the section header, like in the example below:
--------
[section "subsection"]
ok, so how on earth would i use "git config" at the command line to
set a config variable with some arbitrary level of subsections? let's
try this:
$ git config --global a.b.c.d.e rday
huh ... seemed to work fine, and added this to my ~/.gitconfig:
[a "b.c.d"]
e = rday
as i see it, the first component is intgerpreted as the section name,
the last component is the variable/key(?) name, and everything in
between is treated as subsection(s), which is not at all obvious from
that Doc file, or from "man git-config".
and if a section name can contain periods, how would you specify
that at the command line?
rday
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