Error when creating user

[matclab]

I just try to use git bug and started with

$ git bug user create
Error: 54:10: illegal character U+002E '.'
```


Version: 0.8.0
OS: Arch linux

Can I enable more debugging info ?

[Steve Moyer]

Starting with v0.8.0, git-bug has standardized on the word "new" to create identities, bugs, comments, etc. so your command should be:

git bug user new

Here's the help for the user sub-commands:

smoyer1@xps-15-7:~/git/git-bug$ git bug user --help
List identities

Usage:
  git-bug user [flags]
  git-bug user [command]

Available Commands:
  adopt       Adopt an existing identity as your own
  new         Create a new identity
  user        Display a user identity

Flags:
  -f, --format string   Select the output formatting style. Valid values are [default,json] (default "default")
  -h, --help            help for user

Use "git-bug user [command] --help" for more information about a command.

I should also note that I can't replicate your issue above - when I run that command, the word "create" is ignored and so the command git bug user is executed and the known identities are listed.

[Michael Muré]

Actually the CLI rework happened just after v0.8.0, so it's still the old fashion there.

As for this problem, it seems that go-git/gcfg, the subcomponent of go-git parsing the git config, is having a problem with that special character somewhere in your config. Could you look and see where that character appears? Is that a legal thing?

[Michael Muré]

Looks like a similar issue as #904

[matclab]

Thanks @MichaelMure for pointing this.

It looks like go-git doesn't like this part in my .gitconfig:

[difftool.latex]
      cmd = latexdiff "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"

Which seems legit according to the doc

[Michael Muré]

According to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_configuration_file that's a deprecated syntax for a subsection. Now I suppose go-git should not break on it if it's accepted by the normal git.

[matclab]

According to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_configuration_file that's a deprecated syntax for a subsection.

You're right, changing to [difftool "latex"] fix the problem.

Now I suppose go-git should not break on it if it's accepted by the normal git.

It would of course be better. Or at least output a more informative message to prevent deterring new user.
Thank you for your help !

[Steve Moyer]

The go-git library was updated to v5.5.1 recently. I doubt the project is going to release features that are deprecated in Git itself but it would be interesting to try it out.

[Michael Muré]

This particular bit is actually explicitly unsupported: https://github.com/go-git/gcfg/blob/22f18f9a74d34e3b1a7d59cfa33043bc50ebe376/doc.go#L21

However, this package is very ancient code in golang scale (2012) and has been unmaintained for long (last real commit in 2018).

[Steve Moyer]

So should this be closed with "works as designed" since we're not going to change go-git's behavior?

[Michael Muré]

Debatable. I'd think a PR upstream could be accepted but yeah we have a lot on our plate already.

Let's close, and if someone else is affected, comment here.