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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git config does not reuse section name
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:04:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy6le35zv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1D360B.4070203@ubicom.com> (Yakup Akbay's message of "Mon\, 07 Dec 2009 19\:06\:19 +0200")

Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com> writes:

> When I repeat the following n times
>
>    $ git config color.ui always
>    $ git config --unset color.ui
>
>
> it ends up the section name [color] n times in the .git/config file.
>
>
>
> like this for n=4:
>
>    [color]
>    [color]
>    [color]
>    [color]
>
>
> Using git version 1.6.5.3 (I don't know whether this is already fixed
> in in later versions)

If I recall correctly, this hasn't been even noticed/reported/recognized
as an issue, ever since the "git repo-config" was introduced (which later
was renamed to "git config").  Dscho, do you remember details?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07 17:06 [BUG] git config does not reuse section name Yakup Akbay
2009-12-07 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-12-07 20:23   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-12-07 20:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-08  2:05     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-08  2:01   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-08  3:27     ` Junio C Hamano

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