From: Jinwook Jeong <vustthat@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:34:19 GMT
Subject: Re: bugreport: "git config --global" fails if an invalid .git file present
Message-ID: <CAA3Q-aZmn+K2n3PnLixLfAmf78FkQqCneBkzyd+edXMXSoy2MA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq35dtseht.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 3:16 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> I agree this isn't entirely friendly, but I think things are working as
> designed. Even though you're only asking to change global config, we do
> still speculatively check for a repository when running git-config at
> all, as various options could impact its behavior. So the backtrace
> looks like this:

I didn't know that a local repository could affect the result of "git
config --global".

Thank you for the detailed explanation!