From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:38:06 GMT
Subject: Re: overriding/removing inherited credential.helper, Do not add an empty value from config credential.helper
Message-ID: <871ucsc6lt.fsf@lifelogs.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvca47zl3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:23:20 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: 

JCH> "Clear everything you saw so far" would be useful for variables
JCH> other than "credential.helper"; shouldn't it be done by adding a
JCH> general syntax to the configuration file format and teach the
JCH> configuration parser to clear the cumulative definitions so far?

That's a question for the configuration parser, right?  I don't have an
informed opinion on how it should be implemented, and am OK with any
syntax to clear a variable.

Ted