From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:49:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git config fail on variables with no section, as documented
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907261849110.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1248625102-472-1-git-send-email-alex@chmrr.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Alex Vandiver wrote:

> Documentation/config.txt claims:
> 
>     Each variable must belong to some section, which means that there
>     must be a section header before the first setting of a variable.
> 
> However, the parsing code did not enforce this.  This change makes it
> a syntax error to defined a variable before the first section header.

Is there any downside in allowing this?

Ciao,
Dscho