From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:57:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit.c: guard config parser from value=NULL
Message-ID: <7vir0x5xi0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5d46db230802091216h40f88f06r20ebb84de6717af6@mail.gmail.com>

"Govind Salinas" <govind@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:

> -	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.