From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:29:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with, keys without a section
Message-ID: <7veht626ex.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120305103714.GA30463@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> For "git config --list", as you noticed, we include it in the output. I
> suspect we should simply omit it as cruft. But we could also issue a
> warning, and/or die.

A new warning might be worth if we were to suddenly start omitting
them from --list output, but dying won't fly well.

People have been happily lived with their config with such lines
that do not affect what git does, but a new version of git starts to
"die" on them.  For what purpose?  Whom is such a change designed to
help?