Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > git config --get issues an error message when the specified value > contains a section that does not exist, but does not issue any message > when the value contains a key that does not exist while in both cases > returning a status 1. E.g. > > $ git config --get xxx > error: key does not contain a section: xxx > > $ git config --get xxx.yyy > > Proposal: to issue an error message also when the key does not exist. The two cases are different: a key without a section is malformed, whereas a nonexistent value is usually not an error (use the default instead). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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