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From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git config -> "fatal: bad config file"
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:26:07 -0400
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On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> git needs to read the file because the editor could be configured  
> there!
> The only option would be to make git config -e continue past that  
> error.


Syntax errors in .git/config could lead to warnings. Since the file is  
primarily line-oriented anyways (except for groups), recovery should  
be easy.

Also, you could have git-config -e edit a temporary file, check the  
file for errors after editing and then move it to .git/config.