Re: a problem with the gitconfig file for user.email

From: Guy Maurel <guy-kde@maurel.de>
Date: Mar 15, 2011, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <201103151845.52330.guy-kde@maurel.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vwihbfx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hello!

Thanks for helping, but... On Monday, March 14, 2011 12:01:38 AM Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> > Guy Maurel <guy-kde@maurel.de> writes:
> >> why is it necessary to have a <TAB> before the email keyword in the
> >> [user] section?
> > 
> > It isn't. I've just checked with email right at the beginning of the
> > line, without tab or space, and it works (with the latest git.git).
> > 
> >> If not, one get the error message:
> >>   fatal: bad config file line 2 in /home/guy-kde/.gitconfig
> > 
> > Please, give a short and reproducible senario (eg. the full content of
> > .gitconfig, and the command you've typed to get this).

I had very little things:
[user]
      name = Guy Maurel
      email = guy-kde@maurel.de
^^ these are spaces

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> 
> Good suggestion.  I suspect this is some third party programs or hooks
> that are trying to hand parse the config file.  In the distant past, some
> of our perl based Porcelains may have done so but I think these days
> everything we ship should be reading from "git config" output or calling
> git_config() from C.

I am using kernel 2.6.37-ARCH and git 1.7.4.1-1 64bits But I cannot reproduce the problem *today*. I am sorry, so sorry. I bet your pardon.

As I made a git config --add user.email guy-kde@maurel.de I got a <TAB> before the email keyword, this leads me to my question.

Thanks for helping

-- 
guy