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diff --git a/desktop/modules/git/README.md b/desktop/modules/git/README.md index 57c8965..e5a4370 100644 --- a/desktop/modules/git/README.md +++ b/desktop/modules/git/README.md @@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ its comments and layout. `--fixed-value` makes a write touch one value of a multi-valued key. `set` and `unset` first check the old value is still there, because `--replace-all` with no match appends instead of failing, and the file may have changed in the editor. After every write the page reads -the list again; a failure shows git's reason under its row. +the list again; a failure shows git's reason under its row. A value held +twice by the same key is refused, since git would merge both rows into one +on edit and cannot remove just one; fix those in the editor. A file git +cannot parse shows git's error instead of an empty list. + +Every reload rebuilds the rows, so an edit typed into one row and not +saved with Enter is lost when another row is saved or removed. Checks: `./test-gitcfg.sh` (a throwaway `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL`) and `node desktop/modules/git/test_git.js`. |