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+// Copyright (C) 2019 The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package com.google.gerrit.server.account;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verifyNoMoreInteractions;
+
+import com.google.gerrit.extensions.client.GeneralPreferencesInfo;
+import com.google.gerrit.reviewdb.client.Account;
+import com.google.gerrit.server.git.ValidationError;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Config;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+
+/** Tests for parsing user preferences from Git. */
+public class PreferencesTest {
+
+  enum Unknown {
+    STATE
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void ignoreUnknownAccountPreferencesWhenParsing() {
+    ValidationError.Sink errorSink = Mockito.mock(ValidationError.Sink.class);
+    Preferences preferences =
+        new Preferences(Account.id(1), configWithUnknownEntries(), new Config(), errorSink);
+    GeneralPreferencesInfo parsedPreferences = preferences.getGeneralPreferences();
+
+    assertThat(parsedPreferences).isNotNull();
+    assertThat(parsedPreferences.expandInlineDiffs).isTrue();
+    verifyNoMoreInteractions(errorSink);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void ignoreUnknownDefaultAccountPreferencesWhenParsing() {
+    ValidationError.Sink errorSink = Mockito.mock(ValidationError.Sink.class);
+    Preferences preferences =
+        new Preferences(Account.id(1), new Config(), configWithUnknownEntries(), errorSink);
+    GeneralPreferencesInfo parsedPreferences = preferences.getGeneralPreferences();
+
+    assertThat(parsedPreferences).isNotNull();
+    assertThat(parsedPreferences.expandInlineDiffs).isTrue();
+    verifyNoMoreInteractions(errorSink);
+  }
+
+  private static Config configWithUnknownEntries() {
+    Config cfg = new Config();
+    cfg.setBoolean("general", null, "expandInlineDiffs", true);
+    cfg.setBoolean("general", null, "unknown", true);
+    cfg.setEnum("general", null, "unknownenum", Unknown.STATE);
+    cfg.setString("general", null, "unknownstring", "bla");
+    return cfg;
+  }
+}