Re: Question - no space in smtp-server-option

>On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:27:21AM +0200, Chris Coutinho wrote:
>> On Sep-16-18, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>> Chris Coutinho wrote:
>
>>>> Currently my gitconfig contains the following line:
>>>>
>>>> 	sendemail.smtpserveroption=-a<myaccount>
>>>>
>>>> Whereas, the following results in an 'account' not found error:
>>>>
>>>> 	sendemail.smtpserveroption=-a <myaccount>
>>>
>>> Do you mean that your ~/.gitconfig literally contains that exact line?
>[...]
>> Yes that's the exact line in my gitconfig file, which correctly mails using
>> the non-default account I'm after - I'm assuming you're noticing the lack of
>> camelCase? To be honest, that came from zsh autosuggestions, which are all
>> lower-case for some reason.
>
>No, case shouldn't matter.  I'm noticing the it looks like
>
>	foo.bar=baz
>
>instead of
>
>	[foo]
>		bar = baz
>
>(i.e. it seems to be some syntax other than ini syntax).  E.g. I tried
>
>	echo a.b=c >test.config
>	git config -f test.config -l
>
>and get
>
>	fatal: bad config line 1 in file test.config
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan