From: Rune Philosof <rune@philosof.dk>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:59:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with, keys without a section
Message-ID: <4F547261.7000506@philosof.dk>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vjiethh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 02-03-2012 19:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> git is supposed to fail when having a key without a section, but does not.
> I do not think anybody said it is supposed to fail in this case.
>
> the behaviour for a single level name is just "undefined", which is very different from "must fail".

Quoting from `git help config`:
This command will fail if:
  3. no section was provided,
...
under SYNTAX
  Each variable must belong to some section, which means that there must 
be a section header before the first
        setting of a variable.

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