This bug was hidden by the "future-proofing" of the test. Sigh. When neither GIT_CONFIG nor GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL is set, do not use NULL, but $GIT_DIR/config. Instead of using $GIT_DIR/config when only GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL is set. Sorry. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> --- This time, "only" repo-config was affected, _not_ all users of the config file. repo-config.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/repo-config.c b/repo-config.c index 03f108f..ab8f1af 100644 --- a/repo-config.c +++ b/repo-config.c @@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ static int get_value(const char* key_, c const char *home = getenv("HOME"); local = getenv("GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL"); if (!local) - local = repo_config; - else local = repo_config = strdup(git_path("config")); if (home) global = strdup(mkpath("%s/.gitconfig", home)); -- 1.4.0.g59268-dirty - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html