Re: [bug] Multiline value should error if the next line is section

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: May 6, 2018, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSooYuGkxP9u0Uuwu_TCEOd_pj20L05=bwwHynPOapej6g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180507020348.31b473b4@kilabit.info>

Hi Shulhan

Thank you for your report. I'm abbreviating a bit:

On 6 May 2018 at 21:03, Shulhan <ms@kilabit.info> wrote:

Show 12 quoted lines

> [alias]
>         tree = --no-pager log --graph \
>                 -n 20 \
> [user]
>         name = Shulhan
>
> (2) Run `git config -f git.config -l`
>
> The command print the following output,
>
> alias.tree=--no-pager log --graph -n 20 [user]
> alias.name=Shulhan

Small mistake, big consequences. :-)

This behavior looks correct to me, though. It seems very hard to me to second-guess what the user meant. For example, what if that third line contained a "="? Like:

[alias]
        huh = !dd \
              bs=1024 ...

Should Git guess that the backslash on the second line was a mistake? Or maybe not, because alias.bs = "1024 ..." would be a useless alias?

I think such guessing would be theoretically possible, but especially if Git guesses wrong, that could be very frustrating to fight against.

Martin