Re: bugreport: "git config --global" fails if an invalid .git file present

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 18, 2022, 16:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq35dtseht.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Yv3ZKcD0L0dSIavr@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> And that would make your case Just Work. But it's also more dangerous;
> if a misconfiguration or transient error caused us to set up an
> unexpected environment, then the results could be quite wrong and
> confusing. Maybe less so for "git config", but for destructive
> operations it's a scarier concept.

That is a good point, especially if destructive command is run in a repository the user didn't mean to run it in, it would not be pretty.

> In your case, the right resolution is probably to delete the bogus .git
> file.

Yup, that was what I said in a draft I wrote a few days ago and still in my outbox ;-)