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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guard config parser from value=NULL
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:07:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhcghet3q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12025767241532-git-send-email-mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> (Martin Koegler's message of "Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:05:24 +0100")

Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (!strcmp(var, "user.name")) {
> +	if (value && !strcmp(var, "user.name")) {
>  		strlcpy(git_default_name, value, sizeof(git_default_name));
>  		return 0;
>  	}

This is wrong, isn't it?  When somebody says

	[user]
        	name

we should not silently ignore it, but instead say "user.name is
not a bool!" and error out.

The same comment applies to all other

	if (value && !strcmp(var, "<varname>"))

conversions.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-09 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-09 17:05 [PATCH] guard config parser from value=NULL Martin Koegler
2008-02-09 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-10 17:08   ` Martin Koegler

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