why is it necessary to have a <TAB> before the email keyword in the [user] section? Other keywords work with whitespace. If not, one get the error message: fatal: bad config file line 2 in /home/guy-kde/.gitconfig -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html