On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 12:19 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: > > I guess there is no way we can avoid the --global and use --local instead? >
The setting is only respected if it's in the global ($HOME) or system (/etc) configs. There's no explanation for that in the man page, but it's probably because you can't let $repo/.git/config be in charge of safety if $repo is untrustworthy.