On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:27:35AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > I dunno. This is one of those dark corners of the code where we appear > to do the wrong thing, but nobody seems to have noticed or cared much, > and changing it runs the risk of breaking some obscure cases. I'm not > sure if we should bite the bullet and try to address that, or just back > away slowly and pretend we never looked at it. ;) I will point out that with the SHA-256 work, reading the config file becomes essential for SHA-256 repositories, because we need to know the object format. Removing the config file leads to things blowing up in a bad way (what specific bad way I don't remember). That may influence the direction we want to take in this work, or not. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204