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git config error message

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ABAngelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 27, 2012, 08:10 UTC
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Hello,

git config --get issues an error message when the specified value contains a section that does not exist, but does not issue any message when the value contains a key that does not exist while in both cases returning a status 1. E.g.

$ git config --get xxx error: key does not contain a section: xxx

$ git config --get xxx.yyy
Proposal: to issue an error message also when the key does not exist.
-Angelo Borsotti
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