This helper function does not complain about the config variable
but just silently reports failure to the caller. It is useful for
callers that need to parse any string that could be boolean or other
string (e.g. tristate yes/no/auto).
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>