[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2015-11-16T18:11:02Z" content=""" I think what's going on here is that -cfoo=bar is the same as -c foo=bar, and in this case the "foo" happens to contain a space. Since a -c config can be passed through to git to override any git config, git-annex doesn't try to validate them. """]]