Re: git config oddity

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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.

Ok, this makes sense :). I agree that I would be unhappily surprised
if I found that git removed a section that I had put some comments in
when I unset a variable.

> 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).

Ah, unfortunate indeed. I'm not sure I understand why it does not see
the existing header? I had a look at config.c but I couldn't really
make out why it doesn't. Would it be difficult to add that?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier