On 02-03-2012 19:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
git is supposed to fail when having a key without a section, but does not.
I do not think anybody said it is supposed to fail in this case.
the behaviour for a single level name is just "undefined", which is very different from "must fail".
Quoting from `git help config`:
This command will fail if:
3. no section was provided,
...
under SYNTAX
Each variable must belong to some section, which means that there must
be a section header before the first
setting of a variable.
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