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Re: Empty config sections are neither deleted nor reused

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 14, 2016, 17:33 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> Junio's explanation must not necessarily be read as "it has to be the
> way it is", but more as "getting it right is harder than you think", and
> that in turn explains why no one changed the behavior.
Thanks for clarification.  s/must not necessarily/must not/;
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