From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:25:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] generic issue with git_config handlers
Message-ID: <7v1w7ye48j.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080131091627.GB24403@artemis.madism.org>

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>   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 ;-)