On one of my machines I made a typo when configuring git, which resulted in this entry in the .gitconfig file:

[credentials]
    helper = cache

Can you spot the error? I spelled credentials instead of credential. Of course, git accepted this without any error/warning/biting remark.

Is there a way to ask git to validate the config file and flag any entry that:

• is ignored (e.g. alias pull = pull --no-ff)
• does not match any available configuration variable (like the above credentials vs. credential mismatch)

CodePudding user response：

The short answer is no. The reason for this is that the configuration file format is deliberately free-form; any entries that Git doesn't use are ignored, so that other programs can create such entries. For all Git knows, there's some non-Git program that uses credentials.helper for something.

(It would make some sense for Git to detect things that it does know about but skips, such as aliases for built-in commands.)