Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Fix the early config

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> > 
> > >> Or are you discussing a more general issue, iow, anything that can
> > >> work without repository (i.e. those who do _gently version of the
> > >> setup and act on *nongit_ok) should pretend as if there were no
> > >> (broken) repository and take the "no we are not in a repository"
> > >> codepath?
> > >
> > > Yes, exactly.  It would have been less confusing if I picked something
> > > that passed nongit_ok. Like hash-object:
> 
> ... or like testing the early config directly?

> -- snipsnap --
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> Subject: [PATCH] t1309: document cases where we would want early config not to
>  die()
> 
> Jeff King came up with a couple examples that demonstrate how the new
> read_early_config() that looks harder for the current .git/ directory
> could die() in an undesirable way.
> 
> Let's add those cases to the test script, to document what we would like
> to happen when early config encounters problems.