From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor bug: git config ignores empty sections
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:49:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqshu5g3lc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160815185500.htgrz3t2wkztg4ww@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:55:01 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> So a comment outside [section "name"] is tricky; it needs some
>> mechanism (or convention) to tell us if it is about the particular
>> section, or it is about the location in the configuration file.
>
> Keep in mind that even "outside" is hard, because sections do not
> explicitly close.
Yes, that was what I wanted to say. We'd be deep in the
"convention" territory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-15 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-15 1:29 Minor bug: git config ignores empty sections Eli Barzilay
2016-08-15 12:09 ` Jeff King
2016-08-15 17:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-15 18:09 ` Jeff King
2016-08-15 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 18:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-15 18:55 ` Jeff King
2016-08-15 20:49 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-16 4:06 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-08-16 12:36 ` Jeff King
2016-08-21 17:09 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-15 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
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