js/early-config-with-onbranch, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2019, #01; Thu, 1)

> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:05:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > * js/early-config-with-onbranch (2019-07-31) 1 commit
> >   (merged to 'next' on 2019-08-01 at 26b713c824)
> >  + config: work around bug with includeif:onbranch and early config
> >
> >  The recently added [includeif "onbranch:branch"] feature does not
> >  work well with an early config mechanism, as it attempts to find
> >  out what branch we are on before we even haven't located the git
> >  repository.  The inclusion during early config scan is ignored to
> >  work around this issue.
> >
> >  Will merge to 'master'.
>
> I had some open comments here on how the "do we have a repo" check is
> done, but I think what is committed here is functionally equivalent. I
> can pursue the NULL the_repository cleanups separately.