From: Alex Vandiver <alex@chmrr.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:32:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git config fail on variables with no section, as documented
Message-ID: <1248636518-sup-7499@utwig>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907261849110.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

At Sun Jul 26 12:49:28 -0400 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Is there any downside in allowing this?

Not explicitly.  However, there are no legal current uses of it, and
allowing it might encourage extensions to use the top-level config
namespace.  It also has the odd property that it _must_ be at the top
of a configuration file -- unlike all other configuration options, you
can never return to the section to add more variable definitions
later.
 - Alex
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