Package: git Version: 1:1.7.10.4-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
As far as I understand "git config variablename variablevalue" does not check for the validity of "variablename". I've dicovered that because I mispelled "name.mail" insted of "name.email"; the misprint resulted in a wrong author email. The problem was not detected by strace because the wrong line was anyway read, but ignored. After much time wasted, the misprint was discovered by Jonathan Nieder's who took the time to re-read my logs. (THANKS Jonathan.) You might want to consider the possibility of implementing a fool-proof check of the variables' names when using git config and/or when reading theconfig files (with a prompt in case of ignored lines). Regards Ric -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages git depends on: ii git-man 1:1.7.10.4-1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.26.0-1 ii liberror-perl 0.17-1 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-1 ii perl-modules 5.14.2-13 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages git recommends: ii less 444-4 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.0p1-3 ii patch 2.6.1-3 ii rsync 3.0.9-3 Versions of packages git suggests: ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-9 pn git-arch <none> pn git-cvs <none> pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none> pn git-doc <none> pn git-el <none> pn git-email <none> pn git-gui <none> pn git-svn <none> pn gitk <none> pn gitweb <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
