From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:48:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/5] add tests for checking the behaviour of "unset.variable"
Message-ID: <xmqqwq8hkmzw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1tqpm2na.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> That is why I said "unset.variable" is unworkable with existing "git
> config" command line.  Always appending at the end is usable for
> ordinary variables, but for unset.variable, it is most likely the
> least useful thing to do.  You can explain "among 47 different
> things it could do, we chose to do the most useless thing, because
> that is _consistent_ with how the ordinary variables are placed in
> the cofiguration file" in the documentation but it forgets to
> question if unset.variable should be treated the same way as
> ordinary variables in the first place.

This is a tangent, but the above also applies to the "include.path".