Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I recently noticed that when I run 'git config' with the '--remove > <non_existing_section>' I get a warning that section doesn't exist. > When I scrolled through the man page of git-config I could see any > mention about the '--remove' option. I only see that there is a ' > --remove-section' option. Sample output, > >> $ git config --remove test >> fatal: No such section! >> $ git config --remove-section test >> fatal: No such section! > > Is this a bug (or) is the documentation stale ? Neither, I would say. I think that you would get exactly the same behaviour from $ git config --remo test $ git config --remove-sec test These are merely "unique prefix can be abbreviated in option names" kicking in, I think.