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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/5] add tests for checking the behaviour of "unset.variable"
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:09:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr3yqmdxa.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412256292-4286-6-git-send-email-tanayabh@gmail.com> (Tanay Abhra's message of "Thu, 2 Oct 2014 06:24:52 -0700")

Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> writes:

> +test_expect_success 'document how unset.variable will behave in shell scripts' '
> +	rm -f .git/config &&
> +	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> +	EOF
> +	git config foo.bar boz1 &&
> +	git config --add foo.bar boz2 &&
> +	git config unset.variable foo.bar &&
> +	git config --add foo.bar boz3 &&
> +	test_must_fail git config --get-all foo.bar >actual &&

You make foo.bar a multi-valued one, then you unset it, so I would
imagine that the value given after that, 'boz3', would be the only
value foo.bar has.  Why should --get-all fail?

I am having a hard time imagining how this behaviour can make any
sense.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-02 13:24 [PATCH/RFC 0/5] add "unset.variable" for unsetting previously set variables Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 13:24 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/5] config.c : move configset_iter() to an appropriate position Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 13:24 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/5] make git_config_with_options() to use a configset Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 13:24 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/5] add "unset.variable" for unsetting previously set variables Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 13:24 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/5] document the new "unset.variable" variable Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 13:24 ` [PATCH/RFC 5/5] add tests for checking the behaviour of "unset.variable" Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 20:09   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-02 20:18     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 20:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-02 20:35         ` Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 23:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-03  7:01             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-10-03 18:25               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-03 18:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-03 19:49                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-10-03 20:12                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-06 18:59                     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-10-06 19:28                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-06 19:43                         ` Tanay Abhra
2014-10-02 19:29 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] add "unset.variable" for unsetting previously set variables Junio C Hamano
2014-10-02 20:41   ` Jeff King
2014-10-02 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-07 11:17   ` Jakub Narębski
2014-10-07 16:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-08  5:46       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-10-08 17:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-08 18:37           ` Matthieu Moy
2014-10-08 19:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-10  8:11               ` Jeff King
2014-10-13 18:21                 ` Junio C Hamano

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