[---] comment in .gitconfig?

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Is [---] comment in Git such that I can only use % tool=opendiff % once in my .gitconfig ?

Answer 1

I think you are asking if the square bracket syntax in .gitconfig means something significant. The answer is yes, it partitions .gitconfig . Each section has a name between the square brackets. For example:

 [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false 

In the above example, the name of the core section. If you change the word core to something else, Git will not be able to find, for example, the bare parameter, because it must be inside the core section.

The git -config (1) page contains the entire section describing the configuration file format.