On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:15:43AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > + test_cmp expect actual
> > +'
> > +
>
> Is this a recent regression? When applied on top of 'maint' or
> older, it seems to pass just fine.
>
> ... Goes and looks ...
>
> Interesting. Peff's b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from
> configured repos", 2016-09-12) is where this starts failing, which
> is understandable given the code change to builtin/stripspace.c in
> [2/3].
>
> The analysis of the log message in [2/3] is wrong and needs
> updating, though. In the old world order it worked by accident to
> call git_config() without calling setup_git_directory(); after
> b9605bc4f2, that no longer is valid and is exposed as a bug.
Yeah, I noticed that while reading the patch. My b9605bc4f2 did regress
this case, but called out the fact that "cd subdir && git stripspace"
would never have worked. So one step back, 2 steps forward, and Dscho's
patch is the right step forward.
-Peff