Re: git config error message

[Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Angelo Borsotti
<angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Angelo,

> I wrote "value", but I meant "name". The first example I made contains
> a name with a nonexistent section, the second a name with a
> nonexistent key.

This still wouldn't be an error condition though, especially in terms
of how "git config" should treat it.  It should be up to the consumer
of the information to display, or not, any error or diagnostics that
don't result from either a bad request (your first case) or a
malformed configuration file.  This fits with the callback nature of
how the config file is parsed by builtin tools.  The exit code from
"git config" with a missing key is enough for the consumer to make
this decision.

This is just my take on it, but I think the current approach makes sense.

Thanks
-Ben
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