Re: [PATCH 2/3] t0001: work around the bug that reads config file before repo setup

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> If you're curious what the fix looks like, it's in:
>
>   https://github.com/peff/git jk/config-repo-setup
>
> The actual fix is in the final patch, but it needed a lot of preparatory
> work to avoid breaking various programs that made bad assumptions (and
> in the process, I uncovered a ton of other minor bugs).
>
> This is just a preview in case you're interested, for two reasons:
>
>   1. I literally _just_ put the finishing touches on it, and it's
>      extensive and tricky enough that I really should give it one more
>      proofread.
>
>   2. There may be other related fallouts from the bug related to running
>      "git init /path/to/foo" when "/path/to/foo" already exists (and in
>      that case we _do_ want to read its config, but not the config from
>      an existing repository). This may all just work fine, but I need to
>      think about some tests.
>
> -Peff

I looked over the series and it all seems like solid improvements to
me, and I agree with the reasoning and logic. It's nice to also read
very descriptive commit messages that clearly explain each
improvement.

Regards,
Jake