Hello!
Thanks for helping, but...
On Monday, March 14, 2011 12:01:38 AM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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).
I had very little things:
[user]
name = Guy Maurel
email = guy-kde@xxxxxxxxx
^^ these are spaces
>
> 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.
I am using kernel 2.6.37-ARCH and git 1.7.4.1-1 64bits
But I cannot reproduce the problem *today*.
I am sorry, so sorry. I bet your pardon.
As I made a git config --add user.email guy-kde@xxxxxxxxx
I got a <TAB> before the email keyword, this leads me to my question.
Thanks for helping
--
guy
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