From: Peter Krefting Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:49:21 GMT Subject: git config --help not functional on bad config Message-ID: So, I set the wrong value for a configuration option, and git tells me: $ git config branch.autoSetupRebase false $ git log error: malformed value for branch.autosetuprebase fatal: bad config variable 'branch.autosetuprebase' in file '.git/config' at line 24 That's fine. However, when trying to look for help, it is not that useful: $ git config --help error: malformed value for branch.autosetuprebase fatal: bad config variable 'branch.autosetuprebase' in file '.git/config' at line 24 Perhaps it should allow "--help" to go through even if the configuration is bad? After a "git config --unset branch.autosetuprebase" everything works again, but I had to look that up manually calling "man git-config" (afterwards I realized I could go out of the repo to be unaffected by the config, but that probably wouldn't have helped if I had put this in my global config). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/