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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] generic issue with git_config handlers
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:25:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w7ye48j.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131091627.GB24403@artemis.madism.org> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:16:27 +0100")

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>   One of my co-workers stumbled upon a misfeature of the git config
> parser. The following syntax is allowed:
>
>     [section]
> 	 foo

Yeah, that is how "truth" value of boolean is spelled.

> [user]
>     name

That's very unfortunate.  Whatever is expecting string value
should check for NULL.  Fix should probably be easy enough for
any git-hacker-wannabe to tackle ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31  9:16 [bug] generic issue with git_config handlers Pierre Habouzit
2008-01-31  9:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-31 10:10   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-02-04  6:27     ` Christian Couder
2008-02-04 17:01       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-02-04 23:13         ` Christian Couder
2008-02-05  0:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  5:45             ` Christian Couder

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