From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Constantine Plotnikov Subject: Re: [BUG] git config: cygwin git version 1.6.1.2 does not deletes empty sections Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 20:04:25 +0400 Message-ID: <85647ef50905060904w49879c57r4a5773a487f09c85@mail.gmail.com> References: <85647ef50905060850t2e6c2051jfa6d3596b680cc74@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 06 18:04:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M1jbj-0004oJ-RH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 18:04:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757308AbZEFQE1 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 12:04:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752248AbZEFQE0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 12:04:26 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.218.174]:42763 "EHLO mail-bw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756781AbZEFQEZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 12:04:25 -0400 Received: by bwz22 with SMTP id 22so223680bwz.37 for ; Wed, 06 May 2009 09:04:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=x055Xy1jgnYG4/PGKTfa0Lh1zu6YoiyPSR0cxA6MKrE=; b=qVR16CnmSvBv0OcAVS5Hs8qP4Ia2c5FD2b4Nspbu+sR4eXyaIajaxKmkMBfiW2ZErA N607NGxPsENsjkWUFZch4fuevgGgv8jkM258SaKuhgyySsje8DdgtY4BS2M1f2pwph6a b4q62dDdbRc3lKpt28ap88FaRj/JYc4epicBM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jAsiZq0Z+JwdF3vlB1cCYXcIHwGjvKGLROH2W6Jlc4fpJQ0vBByuLak2d340t/xo7F yHrg8ACCkNLVcHYs1rpH/Xdy0RcZ/vrr4dIUsX9nOnyZCyU5rGqZiJoaQSsxKM+qbslZ WqhaynStrVwYgwBOFqrDTv+GtPJ0a2A0W5Lcc= Received: by 10.204.64.67 with SMTP id d3mr1348936bki.142.1241625865507; Wed, 06 May 2009 09:04:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <85647ef50905060850t2e6c2051jfa6d3596b680cc74@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The bug is also confirmed on MSYS git version 1.6.2.2.1669.g7eaf8. Constantine On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Constantine Plotnikov wrote: > I have encountered a bug related to git config in cygwin git version = 1.6.1.2 > > The git config --unset might leave an empty section when the last > property is deleted. But consequent "git config key value" does not > uses this empty section. So the following script leaves a sequence of > empty sections "[a]". Looks like a disk space leak to me. > > git config a.b a > git config --unset a.b > git config a.b a > git config --unset a.b > git config a.b a > git config --unset a.b > git config a.b a > git config --unset a.b > > The resulting .git/config file: > > [core] > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0repositoryformatversion =3D 0 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0filemode =3D true > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0bare =3D false > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0logallrefupdates =3D true > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ignorecase =3D true > [a] > [a] > [a] > [a] > > Was this bug fixed in later versions? > > Constantine >