From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Alex Vandiver <alex@chmrr.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git config fail on variables with no section, as documented
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:49:28 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907261849110.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (raw)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-26 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 21:21 [PATCH 0/2] Section renaming can lose content Alex Vandiver
2009-07-24 21:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success Alex Vandiver
2009-07-24 21:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions Alex Vandiver
2009-07-24 22:11 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-07-24 22:26 ` Alex Vandiver
2009-07-26 16:18 ` [PATCH] Make git config fail on variables with no section, as documented Alex Vandiver
2009-07-26 16:49 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2009-07-26 19:32 ` Alex Vandiver
2009-07-26 19:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-26 20:24 ` Alex Vandiver
2009-07-24 23:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions Junio C Hamano
2009-07-25 0:28 ` (unknown), Nanako Shiraishi
2009-07-25 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-25 14:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-25 17:18 ` Alex Vandiver
2009-07-25 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-25 17:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
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