Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.9.2-358-g22243
diff --git a/git-config.html b/git-config.html index 468d064..bad7693 100644 --- a/git-config.html +++ b/git-config.html
@@ -713,8 +713,11 @@ </dt> <dd> <p> - Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression. - Also outputs the key names. + Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression and + writes out the key names. Regular expression matching is currently + case-sensitive and done against a canonicalized version of the key + in which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection + names are not. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> @@ -1081,8 +1084,9 @@ and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last -dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric -characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.</p></div> +dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric +characters and <tt>-</tt>, and must start with an alphabetic character. Some +variables may appear multiple times.</p></div> <h3 id="_syntax">Syntax</h3><div style="clear:left"></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored. The <em>#</em> and <em>;</em> characters begin comments to the end of line, @@ -1114,9 +1118,10 @@ header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form <em>name = value</em>. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line is taken as <em>name</em> and the variable is recognized as boolean "true". -The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric -characters and <tt>-</tt> are allowed. There can be more than one value -for a given variable; we say then that variable is multivalued.</p></div> +The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters +and <tt>-</tt>, and must start with an alphabetic character. There can be more +than one value for a given variable; we say then that the variable is +multivalued.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded. Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either @@ -4852,7 +4857,7 @@ <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> -Last updated 2012-02-23 14:45:28 PDT +Last updated 2012-03-02 11:52:01 PDT </div> </div> </body>
