From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:07:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guard config parser from value=NULL
Message-ID: <7vhcghet3q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <12025767241532-git-send-email-mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (!strcmp(var, "user.name")) {
> +	if (value && !strcmp(var, "user.name")) {
>  		strlcpy(git_default_name, value, sizeof(git_default_name));
>  		return 0;
>  	}

This is wrong, isn't it?  When somebody says

	[user]
        	name

we should not silently ignore it, but instead say "user.name is
not a bool!" and error out.

The same comment applies to all other

	if (value && !strcmp(var, "<varname>"))

conversions.