Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/5] add tests for checking the behaviour of "unset.variable"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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".
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