From: Matthieu Moy Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:29:20 GMT Subject: Re: a problem with the gitconfig file for user.email Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Guy Maurel writes: > why is it necessary to have a before the email keyword in the [user] > section? It isn't. I've just checked with email right at the beginning of the line, without tab or space, and it works (with the latest git.git). > If not, one get the error message: > fatal: bad config file line 2 in /home/guy-kde/.gitconfig Please, give a short and reproducible senario (eg. the full content of .gitconfig, and the command you've typed to get this). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/