Re: [BUG] git config does not reuse section name

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2009, 20:04 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy6le35zv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B1D360B.4070203@ubicom.com>

Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com> writes:

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> When I repeat the following n times
>
>    $ git config color.ui always
>    $ git config --unset color.ui
>
>
> it ends up the section name [color] n times in the .git/config file.
>
>
>
> like this for n=4:
>
>    [color]
>    [color]
>    [color]
>    [color]
>
>
> Using git version 1.6.5.3 (I don't know whether this is already fixed
> in in later versions)

If I recall correctly, this hasn't been even noticed/reported/recognized as an issue, ever since the "git repo-config" was introduced (which later was renamed to "git config"). Dscho, do you remember details?