Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Matthieu Moy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This whole discussion is basically implementing conditional config.
[...] The problem is that it would be tricky to do in a
backwards-compatible way.

That could be done with "conditional comments" like

# if <some-condition> then
[core]
        pager = less
# endif

That's rather ugly, and the implementation would be even more ugly, but
backward-compatible.

I highly doubt that you would want to be "backward compatible" in this
case, though.
The section of the configuration you are enclosing the new if/endif
syntax may be
understood only by newer Git (e.g. imagine core.pager is still
bool-only today), and
older Git that do not understand if/endif syntax will happily read
that section and
choke on it, no?