On Sun, 6 May 2018 22:03:10 +0200 Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Shulhan > > Thank you for your report. I'm abbreviating a bit: > > On 6 May 2018 at 21:03, Shulhan <ms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [alias] > > tree = --no-pager log --graph \ > > -n 20 \ > > [user] > > name = Shulhan > > > > (2) Run `git config -f git.config -l` > > > > The command print the following output, > > > > alias.tree=--no-pager log --graph -n 20 [user] > > alias.name=Shulhan > > Small mistake, big consequences. :-) > > This behavior looks correct to me, though. It seems very hard to me to > second-guess what the user meant. For example, what if that third line > contained a "="? Like: > > [alias] > huh = !dd \ > bs=1024 ... > > Should Git guess that the backslash on the second line was a mistake? > Or maybe not, because alias.bs = "1024 ..." would be a useless alias? The context of multiline next value that I reported before was about section, not variable. > > I think such guessing would be theoretically possible, but especially > if Git guesses wrong, that could be very frustrating to fight against. > I'm not familiar with git config parser, obviously :), but checking the start of next multiline value that start with '[' maybe not impossible. Git should not guessed, but report error at the offending line: either user forgot to enclosed the variable with double quote or they missplace the backslash.
