a problem with the gitconfig file for user.email

> Guy Maurel <guy-kde@maurel.de> writes:
>
>> why is it necessary to have a <TAB> 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 <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> > Guy Maurel <guy-kde@maurel.de> writes:
> >> why is it necessary to have a <TAB> 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).

> 
> Good suggestion.  I suspect this is some third party programs or hooks
> that are trying to hand parse the config file.  In the distant past, some
> of our perl based Porcelains may have done so but I think these days
> everything we ship should be reading from "git config" output or calling
> git_config() from C.