Comment 4 for bug 725234
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| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote Re: [Bug 725234] Re: config doesn't provide a --section parameter | #4 |
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On 4 April 2011 18:11, Vincent Ladeuil <email address hidden> wrote:
> My assumption is that a section is not necessarily a location. A
> location is (at least in locations.conf) a glob that could match
> *several* sections and what is needed here is to identify *one* section
> without ambiguity.
>
> And there can be other usages for section names than paths/locations.
I agree with all that. I think, perhaps separately from this bug, it
may be useful for the user to say "for everything under ~/work, set
foo=bar" without so much getting into that being one section in the
locations config.