From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:25:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git config error message
Message-ID: <m2bofo9v93.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9AQkSiv=F8NeYs+uspR5f4CeJS5L-hwZUXdq7dts1W5ng@mail.gmail.com>

Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

The two cases are different: a key without a section is malformed,
whereas a nonexistent value is usually not an error (use the default
instead).

Andreas.

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