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authorJakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>2007-01-24 14:14:33 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-01-24 23:30:37 (GMT)
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Documentation/config.txt: Correct info about subsection name
Contrary to variable values, in subsection names parsing character escape codes (besides literal escaping of " as \", and \ as \\) is not performed; subsection name cannot contain newlines. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ in the section header, like in example below:
--------
-Subsection names can contain any characters (doublequote '`"`', backslash
-'`\`' and newline have to be entered escaped as '`\"`', '`\\`' and '`\n`',
+Subsection names can contain any characters except newline (doublequote
+'`"`' and backslash have to be escaped as '`\"`' and '`\\`',
respecitvely) and are case sensitive. Section header cannot span multiple
lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you