From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:18:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git config -> "fatal: bad config file"
Message-ID: <4A85724C.5060406@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <A5CDBB91-E889-4849-953A-2C1DB4A04513@gmail.com>

David Reitter venit, vidit, dixit 14.08.2009 15:38:
> I made a mistake editing my config file using "git config -e".  This  
> caused git commands to fail.
> 
> Trying to fix the problem, I did
> 
> git config -e
> fatal: bad config file line 7 in .git/config
> 
> I think the refusal to edit a broken config file is not a good idea.   
> It's easy to fix for me of course by editing .git/config directly, but  
> git-config should probably not read the config file at all.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration.
> 

git needs to read the file because the editor could be configured there!
The only option would be to make git config -e continue past that error.

Michael