Pete Harlan [off-list ref] writes:
When the user asks to edit an empty .gitconfig file, we learned to
generate a default version in 9830534e (config --global --edit: create
a template file if needed, 2014-07-25), but the generated config
mistakenly set core.user and core.email instead of user.name and
user.email.
Oops, indeed. I don't know how I could came up with such mistake and not
notice.
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Matthieu Moy
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