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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: sverre@rabbelier.nl
Cc: Git Mailinglist <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git config oddity
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:16 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807151600170.8950@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0807150744l78eb8d54ld167d3a9a5a600f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> I noticed today that when unsetting the last value in a group git
> config leaves the empty group header.

That is on purpose.  As .git/config was always meant as a user-editable 
file, you can put comments into that section.  Or comment out some values.

So "git config" does not remove the section, even if no variable is there 
at the moment.

It is somewhat unfortunate that setting a variable does not find the 
section; the reason is that it sees sections only when a variable is set 
(to avoid having to do the parsing itself).

Hth,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-15 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15 14:44 git config oddity Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-15 15:02 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-15 15:29   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-15 15:33     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-15 15:35       ` Sverre Rabbelier

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