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Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does

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Using the [section.subsection] syntax, the subsection is transformed
to lower-case and is matched case sensitively. Say so in the
documentation and mention that you shouldn't be using it anyway.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Carlos Martín Nieto 2011-10-12 17:52:06 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to.
There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
names.
There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
restrictions as section names.
All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form