Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Complain in the tests about git config not failing with, keys without a section

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:29:10 -0800

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> For "git config --list", as you noticed, we include it in the output. I
> suspect we should simply omit it as cruft. But we could also issue a
> warning, and/or die.

A new warning might be worth if we were to suddenly start omitting
them from --list output, but dying won't fly well.

People have been happily lived with their config with such lines
that do not affect what git does, but a new version of git starts to
"die" on them.  For what purpose?  Whom is such a change designed to
help?