From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Empty config sections are neither deleted nor reused
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 09:47:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeg95aor6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3d6knwo.fsf@bernoul.li> (Jonas Bernoulli's message of "Fri, 13 May 2016 16:55:51 +0200")
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
> The only possible combination which doesn't make sense is to not remove
> an empty section and to also not reuse an empty section - unfortunately
> that's what Git currently does.
It is not that simple.
The configuration sections can have comments and they are preserved
even when they become empty. Adding something unrelated will still
make it appear the stale comment applies to it.
If you are interested, start here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/219505/focus=219524
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-13 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 14:55 Empty config sections are neither deleted nor reused Jonas Bernoulli
2016-05-13 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-05-14 13:21 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2016-05-14 15:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-05-14 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-14 18:54 ` Jonas Bernoulli
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