Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> writes:
>> what's with that "git config bla ~/"? is this some config keyword
>> or something?
> ...
>
> I agree with you that it is less clear than it could be. Ideas for
> clarifying it?
Yeah, if it were
git config section.var ~/some/thing
that would be far clearer than "bla" that what we see is a mere
placeholder.
Another obvious option is to remove the parenthetical comment.
Or "(but you can give values without quoting and let your shell
expand it)", without a confusing sample command that proved not to
help very much.