From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:35:53 GMT
Subject: Re: repeated empty section in config of repository
Message-ID: <CABPp-BEvsBqqQMvb8zAPZ8r+=Wd-2VA0eVuM9FJSoogUP=AZOA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <32db4d5189264ab791704cce91d6efaf@bs-ag.com>

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:08 AM Kurt Ablinger <kurt.ablinger@bs-ag.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure if this can be problem - at least it is proably not correct:
>
> when adding a key to an empty section and deleting the key so that the section is empty again,
> every add adds the section-name again - example:
>
> git config gc.autoDetach false ; git config --unset gc.autoDetach ; cat config
> [gc]
>
> git config gc.autoDetach false ; git config --unset gc.autoDetach ; cat config
> [gc]
> [gc]
>
> git config gc.autoDetach false ; git config --unset gc.autoDetach ; cat config
> [gc]
> [gc]
> [gc]
>
> Git-version is 2.17.0
> Linux - Cent/OS: 2.6.32-754.10.1.el6.x86_64 - GNU/Linux
>
> Greetings
> Kurt

I believe this was fixed by 4f4d0b42bae8 ("Merge branch
'js/empty-config-section-fix'", 2018-05-08) in git-2.18.0.