From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:11:06 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] `git clone '-c KEY=VALUE'` no longer works Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20251130134930.GB199421@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > That's about where I'm at, though I'm a little worried by Dscho's > mention that apparently git-lfs has the same problem. So maybe it's more > widespread than I am giving it credit for? Reading , I think the mention of LFS in Dscho's message on this list was a red-herring, as corrected by Dscho himself at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5972#issuecomment-3577520017 I do not know if buggily constructed command line by Atlassian Bamboo is something we want to bend over backwards to help papering over, but probably not. > I dunno. I certainly do not want to get into a deprecation period and > all of that mess. Maybe the breakage in v2.52.0 would be enough for > callers to notice and fix their invocations, and we could just quietly > remove the hack later? But then, I am not sure what makes "later" any > better than "now". Yes. Let's write it off as an inadvertent bugfix ;-) Thanks.