On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 10:03:10PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote: > This behavior looks correct to me, though. It seems very hard to me to > second-guess what the user meant. For example, what if that third line > contained a "="? Like: > > [alias] > huh = !dd \ > bs=1024 ... > > Should Git guess that the backslash on the second line was a mistake? > Or maybe not, because alias.bs = "1024 ..." would be a useless alias? > > I think such guessing would be theoretically possible, but especially if > Git guesses wrong, that could be very frustrating to fight against.
I agree that trying to guess what the user wanted here is likely impossible. Furthermore, Git intentionally ignores unknown options. For example, I have advice and diff options set in my .gitconfig that would not be valid on the Git shipped with a base CentOS 6 (which, unfortunately, I sometimes have to use). It's very convenient for users working across a variety of systems that unknown options are simply ignored, even if that means sometimes mistakes are not caught. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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