Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. > > Now that you mention it, I think I have read that before. Unfortunately > I forgot about it until you reminded me. I would still prefer if empty > sections were removed and/or reused provided no comment is nearby, but > now that you reminded me why the current behavior is how it is, I can > live with it. Junio's explanation must not necessarily be read as "it has to be the way it is", but more as "getting it right is harder than you think", and that in turn explains why no one changed the behavior. Actually, Tanay Abhra's GSoC two years ago included working on this, but the project had other priorities and the empty sections issue was not tackled. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html