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From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Subject: Re: Empty config sections are neither deleted nor reused
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 20:54:28 +0200
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Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> Junio's explanation must not necessarily be read as "it has to be the
>> way it is", but more as "getting it right is harder than you think", and
>> that in turn explains why no one changed the behavior.
>
> Thanks for clarification.  s/must not necessarily/must not/;

That's how I read it too ;-)

Apparently my reply left more room for interpretation.