Subject: Re: Minor bug: git config ignores empty sections

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:49:19 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

>> So a comment outside [section "name"] is tricky; it needs some
>> mechanism (or convention) to tell us if it is about the particular
>> section, or it is about the location in the configuration file.
>
> Keep in mind that even "outside" is hard, because sections do not
> explicitly close.

Yes, that was what I wanted to say.  We'd be deep in the
"convention" territory.