Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> wrote: > + git_config(git_setup_config); When $GIT_DIR was not set and the repository is found as a .git directory $GIT_DIR will be the full path to the .git directory when calling git_config(). git_config() calls git_path() which calls get_git_dir() which calls getenv("GIT_DIR"). I'm not sure this is defined behaviour at all: char *foo = getenv("FOO"); unsetenv("FOO"); Does foo still point to the old content of the FOO environment variable? If it does get_git_dir() will always return the full path to the repository directory. I can think of two ways to solve this (in case this is a problem): 1. Add a function to environment.c which will cause setup_git_env to be called again (either directly or by setting all the pointers to NULL again). 2. Use git_config_from_file() instead of git_config(). This will probably duplicate code from git_config(). - To unsubscribe from this list: 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