2017-01-06 18:55 GMT+01:00 Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Jake Lambert <jake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When executing "git branch <branch> --edit-description" on a branch with no description set, I get "fatal: could not unset 'branch.<branch>.description". It would seem that the unsetting piece should occur only after checking if it was set in the first place. > > That seems strange. Is it possible that your config is not writable? > (.git/config, ~/gitconfig, you'd need to find out where the <branch> > is configured already via git config --global/--system/--local --list) > Have you actually tried to reproduce this issue? I'm on current next and can reproduce the problem. It seems Git is not happy with unsetting non-existent configs. And at least the following piece of code seems to be there since 10bea152a (Add functions git_config_set() and git_config_set_multivar(), 2005-11-17). config.c:2212 /* if nothing to unset, or too many matches, error out */ if ((store.seen == 0 && value == NULL) || I wonder why it's an error to remove something that doesn't exist except the case we 'know' it exists because of further actions. I don't think this is a thing, though. Just for the record: `git config --unset branch.$branch.description` does return with code "5" here as well. I think removing things that don't exist should behave the same like removing things that do exist, with a success. Ralf