error "expected section name" about lazygit HOT 3 CLOSED

I suspect there's something wrong with this repo's .git/config file, probably at line 52. Have a look if there's any junk in there.

I'm only guessing here though, couldn't reproduce the problem on my end, at least not with the symptoms you saw.

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Yes, that seems to have been the problem. There was a junk entry there:

[ ""]
	local = user.email

For me this solved now. If you consider it done, feel free to close, but I'll leave it open if you want to add a fix for it in lazygit.
Thank you.

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On master it no longer misbehaves in the way you described, because of this commit. However, now you get no indication whatsoever that there's something wrong (unless you have logging enabled and look at the debug log), so that's also not good. I'd say that's a separate issue though, so I'll close this one.

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