Hi Tomas,

Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:

> Hi,
>
> so, in guix repository we include ../etc/git/gitconfig in the
> .git/config.  I get the motivation for that, but I wanted to raise a
> down side that I encountered today.  I have fetched the upstream Guix
> and went on to merge the updates, but got a merge conflict, in the
> etc/git/gitconfig file.
>
> That turned out to be somewhat unpleasant.  Magit stopped working.  Git
> command line stopped working:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ git status
> fatal: bad config line 10 in file .git/../etc/git/gitconfig
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Once you realize what went wrong, it is not *that* hard to fix, but it
> still was somewhat unpleasant surprise.

What went wrong? Could you give in more details how you got into such a
situation? I did change the value of format.useAutoBase in 958bc01404
yesterday, it seems it triggered that for you? But I do not understand
how.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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