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Re: Local unset override global options

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SHStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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Apr 12, 2010, 08:23 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

> have you tried setting it to an empty value?

Yes I have tried it. An empty string causes the SMTP auth Perl module to choke. It expects a non-empty username and exits with an error.

On my system I have patched git-send-email to perform this check:
if (defined $smtp_authuser and length $smtp_authuser) {

This works but feels like a hack. I think unset override could be useful for any git config option, not just sendemail.smtpuser.

I'm not familiar with git internals; do you have other suggestions for solving this issue?

Stefan
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