There's a chicken-and-egg problem with using the regular git_config during the repository setup process. We get around it here by using a special interface that lets us specify the per-repo config, and avoid calling git_pathdup().
But this interface doesn't actually make sense. It will look in the system and per-user config, too; we definitely would not want to accept a core.repositoryformatversion from there. The git_config_from_file interface is a better match, as it lets us look at a single file. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> --- This has literally been bugging me for 8 years. setup.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index a02932b..a6013e6 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -409,15 +409,10 @@ static int check_repository_format_gently(const char *gitdir, int *nongit_ok) repo_config = sb.buf; /* - * git_config() can't be used here because it calls git_pathdup() - * to get $GIT_CONFIG/config. That call will make setup_git_env() - * set git_dir to ".git". - * - * We are in gitdir setup, no git dir has been found useable yet. - * Use a gentler version of git_config() to check if this repo - * is a good one. + * Ignore return value; for historical reasons, we must treat a missing + * config file as a noop (git-init relies on this). */ - git_config_early(fn, NULL, repo_config); + git_config_from_file(fn, repo_config, NULL); if (GIT_REPO_VERSION_READ < repository_format_version) { if (!nongit_ok) die ("Expected git repo version <= %d, found %d", -- 2.8.0.rc0.278.gfeb5644 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html