rewrite git_config() to use the config-set API

diff --git a/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh b/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh
index 01b8aae2ed12eab92ecbfb562cb616e0cfc47202..ac71418a1b26bc17a1252d6831869b96a8d8c176 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh
+++ b/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh
@@ -191,5 +191,10 @@ test_expect_success 'http error messages are reencoded' '
        grep "this is the error message" stderr
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'reencoding is robust to whitespace oddities' '
+       test_must_fail git clone "$HTTPD_URL/error/odd-spacing" 2>stderr &&
+       grep "this is the error message" stderr
+'
+
 stop_httpd
 test_done