help.c: guard config parser from value=NULL

help.format configuration expects a string value

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 1302a61c83..95e7640fed 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ static void parse_help_format(const char *format)
 static int git_help_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 {
 	if (!strcmp(var, "help.format")) {
+		if (!value)
+			return config_error_nonbool(var);
 		help_default_format = xstrdup(value);
 		return 0;
 	}