Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>> > This whole discussion is basically implementing conditional config.
>> > [...] The problem is that it would be tricky to do in a
>> > backwards-compatible way.
>>
>> That could be done with "conditional comments" like
>>
>> # if <some-condition> then
>> [core]
>>         pager = less
>> # endif
>>
>> That's rather ugly, and the implementation would be even more ugly, but
>> backward-compatible.
>
>
> I highly doubt that you would want to be "backward compatible" in this
> case, though.
> The section of the configuration you are enclosing the new if/endif
> syntax may be
> understood only by newer Git (e.g. imagine core.pager is still
> bool-only today), and
> older Git that do not understand if/endif syntax will happily read
> that section and
> choke on it, no?