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Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit.c: guard config parser from value=NULL
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"Govind Salinas" <govind@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:

> -	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.