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From: Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Bug: 'git config --local user.email=<alt.email>' fails silently?
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 07:47:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1491112043.5830.11.camel@oracle.com> (raw)

Hi,

From the documentation I would have expected 

git config --local user.email=alt.email@alt.domain

to create a section 

[user]
	email=alt.email@alt.domain

in the local .git/config.

Instead it returns status 1 with no error message.

Is this intentional?

If I add the [user] section manually, it works as expected/desired:
my commits in that tree uses the alternate mail address.

git --version
git version 2.7.4

Thanks,
Knut Omang

-- 
Knut Omang, Ph.D
Principal Software Engineer
Oracle Linux and Virtualization Engineering
ORACLE Norway | Olaf Helsets vei 6 | 0694 Oslo
Email: knut.omang@oracle.com | Phone:  +47 41 46 22 10


             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-02  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-02  5:47 Knut Omang [this message]
2017-04-02  7:38 ` Bug: 'git config --local user.email=<alt.email>' fails silently? Jeff King
2017-04-02  7:53   ` Knut Omang

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