From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:02:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git config oddity
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807151600170.8950@racer>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0807150744l78eb8d54ld167d3a9a5a600f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> I noticed today that when unsetting the last value in a group git
> config leaves the empty group header.

That is on purpose.  As .git/config was always meant as a user-editable 
file, you can put comments into that section.  Or comment out some values.

So "git config" does not remove the section, even if no variable is there 
at the moment.

It is somewhat unfortunate that setting a variable does not find the 
section; the reason is that it sees sections only when a variable is set 
(to avoid having to do the parsing itself).

Hth,
Dscho