Glen Choo <chooglen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It truly makes no sense because `branch..remote` fits the schema of > `branch.<name>.remote` where <name> is "", but "" isn't a valid branch > name (and it never has been AFAIK). So such a key would never be useful > to Git, and it would be extremely hacky for a non-Git tool to use such > a key. Yup, we might want to reserve a bogus key or two that can never be a branch name to allow us express "this configuration is in effect for all branches" (e.g. "branch.*.rebase = never"), but the natural such name would be "*" and does not have to be an empty string.
