Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Yeah, that is probably what would happen. I have to admit that it's such > an obscure case that I'm not sure I really care. It's unlikely in > practice, and if somebody did report such a case, I think my first > response would be "well, why did you have a broken entry stuck in your > file?". I think we know the likely answer. "I once used Windows to edit the file manually". After which the file looks broken, so the user may have re-added via the credential API (with LF line ending) a new entry for the host and have been happily using the result.