Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:15:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> >    }
>> > -
>> > +  if (git_gpg_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
>> > +          return -1;
>> >    if (grep_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
>> >            return -1;
>> 
>> Hmph.  I do not particularly like the way the call to grep_config()
>> loses information by not ignoring its return value and always
>> returning -1, but I'll let it pass for this patch.
>
> That's my fault for suggesting he follow the same style as grep here.
> But I wonder if it is worth the effort. We have never cared about
> anything beyond "was there an error" in our config callbacks, and the
> value returned from the callbacks is lost in git_parse_file (i.e., we do
> not propagate the actual return value, but only check that
> "callback(var, value, data) < 0", and die if so).
>
> Existing callbacks pass data out by writing into a struct pointed to by
> the data pointer, which is more flexible, anyway.
>
> So unless you want to overhaul the whole config system to propagate
> return codes back to the caller, I do not think there is any point in
> worrying about it.

Yeah, that is where my conclusion in the message you are responding
comes from ;-)
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