On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:51:03AM +0000, Kurt Ablinger wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure if this can be problem - at least it is proably not correct: > > when adding a key to an empty section and deleting the key so that the section is empty again, > every add adds the section-name again - example: > > git config gc.autoDetach false ; git config --unset gc.autoDetach ; cat config > [gc] > > git config gc.autoDetach false ; git config --unset gc.autoDetach ; cat config > [gc] > [gc] > > git config gc.autoDetach false ; git config --unset gc.autoDetach ; cat config > [gc] > [gc] > [gc] > > Git-version is 2.17.0 > Linux - Cent/OS: 2.6.32-754.10.1.el6.x86_64 - GNU/Linux This was a known issue, but not a serious one, in the sense that it didn't affect correctness of configuration parsing. It was mostly fixed in v2.18.0.
