From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:09:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-credential-store: skip empty lines and comments from store
Message-ID: <20200427190955.GA1728884@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk12095yh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:47:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Those were never supposed to work. I'm mildly surprised that they did.
> 
> I know that feeling X-<.  It probably was a mistake to pretend that
> the file were editable with an editor, but it is too late to fix
> that.

I guess it is somewhat my fault for documenting the format at all
git-credential-store.txt. I probably should have said "this is a black
box and is subject to change".

> The next complainer may say that "; comment" no longer works.  We
> probably should draw a line somewhere, but I am not sure where.

If we get a bug report for "credential-store does not respect
core.commentChar" I think my head would explode. :)

-Peff