From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does 'git config' accept the '--remove' option?
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:34:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzid1p4tw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498068738.32360.7.camel@gmail.com> (Kaartic Sivaraam's message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:42:18 +0530")
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:
> I recently noticed that when I run 'git config' with the '--remove
> <non_existing_section>' I get a warning that section doesn't exist.
> When I scrolled through the man page of git-config I could see any
> mention about the '--remove' option. I only see that there is a '
> --remove-section' option. Sample output,
>
>> $ git config --remove test
>> fatal: No such section!
>> $ git config --remove-section test
>> fatal: No such section!
>
> Is this a bug (or) is the documentation stale ?
Neither, I would say. I think that you would get exactly the same
behaviour from
$ git config --remo test
$ git config --remove-sec test
These are merely "unique prefix can be abbreviated in option names"
kicking in, I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-21 18:34 UTC|newest]
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2017-06-21 18:12 Does 'git config' accept the '--remove' option? Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-21 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-06-21 18:43 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
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