On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote:

> So what is the argument against this extra care to detect comments? Well, if
> you have something like this:
>
>         [section]
>                 ; Here we comment about the variable called snarf
>                 snarf = froop
>
> and we run `git config --unset section.snarf`, we end up with this config:
>
>         [section]
>                 ; Here we comment about the variable called snarf
>
> which obviously does not make sense. However, that is already established
> behavior for quite a few years, and I do not even try to think of a way how
> this could be solved.

By commenting out the key/value pair instead of deleting it.
It's called --unset, not --delete ;)

Now onto reviewing the patches.

Stefan

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