From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git pull ignores pull.autostash=true configuration when used with --git-dir and --work-tree flags on a bare repository
Message-ID: <xmqqa555gp1i.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <1AD9A170-8E17-411D-A13B-EA7780CF4D39@gmail.com>

Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> writes:

> Bryan Lee <hi@looping.me> wrote:
>> 
>> Would it be worthwhile to:
>> 1. Add a warning when users set non-existent configuration keys?
>> 2. Or at least document common misconceptions like `pull.autostash` in
>> the git-config man page?
>
> I think adding a subcommand like ‘git config verify’ might be a way to
> solve this problem.

Yes, but I do not know if it is feasible.

There always are end-user or third-party defined keys that are not
known to us, and we cannot tell if an unknown variable is such a
end-user defined one or a typo of a known one.