From: Mushegh Khachatryan <mushegh.khachatryan20@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:29:01 GMT
Subject: git init fails because of includeIf configuration
Message-ID: <0b92381d-b21f-4d3a-8e68-ad9977a8b45d@gmail.com>

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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

I have a section of configuration for specific branch in my ~/.gitconfig 
file. It looks like this

```
[includeIf "onbranch:other"]
         path=~/.gitconfig-other
```

In ~/.gitconfig-other I have this (the values are changed)

```
[user]
     email = myemail@email.com
     name = My Name
     signingkey = KEYID

[commit]
     gpgsign = true

[credential]
     username = username
```

I ran `git init` in empty directory.

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

Initialize repository with or without includeIf configuration section.

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

```
$ git init
BUG: refs.c:2123: reference backend is unknown
zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped)  git init
```

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

I have expected to initialize a new repository but got an error message.

Anything else you want to add:

I ended up commenting includeIf section in my .gitconfig file, 
initialize repository then uncomment that section and use git as usual.
The problem might be related only to `git init`.

Please review the rest of the bug report below.
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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.45.2
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
uname: Linux 6.6.34-1-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 16 Jun 2024 
14:45:31 +0000 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 14.1
libc info: glibc: 2.39
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh


[Enabled Hooks]
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