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a problem with the gitconfig file for user.email

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GMGuy Maurel <guy-kde@maurel.de>
Date
Mar 13, 2011, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID
<loom.20110313T182907-610@post.gmane.org>
why is it necessary to have a <TAB> before the email keyword in the [user]
section? Other keywords work with whitespace.
If not, one get the error message:
  fatal: bad config file line 2 in /home/guy-kde/.gitconfig
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