From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jinwook Jeong <vustthat@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bugreport: "git config --global" fails if an invalid .git file present
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:28:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq35dtseht.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yv3ZKcD0L0dSIavr@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2022 02:16:09 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 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 ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-18 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-16 16:16 bugreport: "git config --global" fails if an invalid .git file present Jinwook Jeong
2022-08-18 6:16 ` Jeff King
2022-08-18 16:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-08-24 11:34 ` Jinwook Jeong
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