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Re: Minor bug: git config ignores empty sections

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 15, 2016, 18:09 UTC
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<20160815180905.znnz6evufsne5wy6@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:34:50PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> On Aug 15 2016, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > And implicit in your test is the other bug, which is that deleting the
> > last key in a section leaves the empty header. I think it's related to
> > the same issue.
> 
> Indiscriminately removing empty section headers may break comments that
> have been put there on purpose.
I know, but we do not even do so discriminately.
-Peff
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  1. Eli BarzilayAug 15, 2016
  2. Jeff KingAug 15, 2016
  3. Andreas SchwabAug 15, 2016
  4. Jeff KingAug 15, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2016
  6. Andreas SchwabAug 15, 2016
  7. Jeff KingAug 15, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2016
  9. Eli BarzilayAug 16, 2016
  10. Jeff KingAug 16, 2016
  11. Jakub NarębskiAug 21, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2016

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