Re: Minor bug: git config ignores empty sections

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2016, 20:49 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqshu5g3lc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160815185500.htgrz3t2wkztg4ww@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> So a comment outside [section "name"] is tricky; it needs some
>> mechanism (or convention) to tell us if it is about the particular
>> section, or it is about the location in the configuration file.
>
> Keep in mind that even "outside" is hard, because sections do not
> explicitly close.

Yes, that was what I wanted to say. We'd be deep in the "convention" territory.