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Subject: Re: Minor bug: git config ignores empty sections
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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.