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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with, keys without a section

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 2, 2012, 18:40 UTC
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Rune Schjellerup Philosof <rune@philosof.dk> writes:
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> From c4fc13a5a1e8c1eab9873232e6e8b7e0523cd6ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rune Philosof <rune.git@philosof.dk>
> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:42:23 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with
>  keys without a section
What are these lines?
>
> 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.

Historically, we always allowed single level names in our configuration parser, at least for reading, from pretty much day one, I think. The documentation only talks about two and three level names, because we do not use such a name ourselves in the code, and the behaviour for a single level name is just "undefined", which is very different from "must fail".

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