From: Rune Philosof <rune@philosof.dk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with, keys without a section
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:59:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F547261.7000506@philosof.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8vjiethh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 02-03-2012 19:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> git is supposed to fail when having a key without a section, but does not.
> I do not think anybody said it is supposed to fail in this case.
>
> the behaviour for a single level name is just "undefined", which is very different from "must fail".
Quoting from `git help config`:
This command will fail if:
3. no section was provided,
...
under SYNTAX
Each variable must belong to some section, which means that there must
be a section header before the first
setting of a variable.
--
Greeting
Rune Philosof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 10:57 [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with, keys without a section Rune Schjellerup Philosof
2012-03-02 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-05 7:59 ` Rune Philosof [this message]
2012-03-05 10:37 ` Jeff King
2012-03-05 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-06 8:06 ` Jeff King
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