Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:

> 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?

which still stands.  My initial reaction was "eh, I didn't know it
was an error to call the function for two-level names".

> After grepping for call sites of this function, I think we can
> simplify quite a few instances of:
>
>       if (parse_config_key(...) || !name)
>               return ...;

This is false.  Sorry for the noise.

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