Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Guy Maurel <guy-kde@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 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