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Re: [bug] generic issue with git_config handlers

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 31, 2008, 09:25 UTC
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Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
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>   One of my co-workers stumbled upon a misfeature of the git config
> parser. The following syntax is allowed:
>
>     [section]
> 	 foo
Yeah, that is how "truth" value of boolean is spelled.
> [user]
>     name

That's very unfortunate. Whatever is expecting string value should check for NULL. Fix should probably be easy enough for any git-hacker-wannabe to tackle ;-)

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