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config: make the suggested "set" command safe to paste - #2457
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When "git config" is given "<key>=<value>" as a single argument and
the value contains spaces, the suggested command does not work when
pasted back into a shell:
$ git config status.comparebranches="@{upstream} @{push}"
error: missing value to set to the variable 'status.comparebranches=@{upstream} @{push}'
hint: did you mean "git config set status.comparebranches @{upstream} @{push}"?
The shell splits the value into two arguments and the command fails
with "wrong number of arguments".
Quote the value when it needs it, and put the command on a line of
its own the way other hints show commands, so it can be copied
without the surrounding quotes:
hint: did you mean:
hint:
hint: git config set status.comparebranches '@{upstream} @{push}'
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
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When
git config <key>=<value>is given a value with spaces, the suggested command fails when pasted back into a shell. Quote the value when it needs it and put the command on its own line, the way other hints show commands: