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On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:29:02AM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> Doesn't "git config --get" return an error if there are multiple values?
> The answer is apparently "no" - I wrote the text below from
> git-config(1) and then checked the behaviour.  This seems to be a
> regression in git-config (bisect running now).

Ah, that was an intentional change in commit 00b347d (git-config: do not
complain about duplicate entries, 2012-10-23).  So the issue is that the
documentation was not updated when the behaviour was changed.