From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> The way "git stripspace" reads the configuration was not quite correct, in that it forgot to probe for a possibly existing repository (note: stripspace is designed to be usable outside the repository as well) before doing so. Due to this, .git/config was read only when the command was run from the top-level of the working tree. A recent change b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured repos", 2016-09-12) stopped reading the repository-local configuration file ".git/config" unless the repository discovery process is done, and ".git/config" is no longer read even when run from the top-level, which exposed the bug even more. When rebasing interactively with a commentChar defined in the current repository's config, the help text at the bottom of the edit script potentially used an incorrect comment character. This was not only funny-looking, but also resulted in tons of warnings like this one: Warning: the command isn't recognized in the following line - # Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/stripspace.c | 4 +++- t/t0030-stripspace.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/stripspace.c b/builtin/stripspace.c index 15e716ef43..1e62a008cb 100644 --- a/builtin/stripspace.c +++ b/builtin/stripspace.c @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ int cmd_stripspace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (argc) usage_with_options(stripspace_usage, options); - if (mode == STRIP_COMMENTS || mode == COMMENT_LINES) + if (mode == STRIP_COMMENTS || mode == COMMENT_LINES) { + setup_git_directory_gently(NULL); git_config(git_default_config, NULL); + } if (strbuf_read(&buf, 0, 1024) < 0) die_errno("could not read the input"); diff --git a/t/t0030-stripspace.sh b/t/t0030-stripspace.sh index c1f6411eb2..bbf3e39e3d 100755 --- a/t/t0030-stripspace.sh +++ b/t/t0030-stripspace.sh @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ test_expect_success '-c with changed comment char' ' test_cmp expect actual ' -test_expect_failure '-c with comment char defined in .git/config' ' +test_expect_success '-c with comment char defined in .git/config' ' test_config core.commentchar = && printf "= foo\n" >expect && printf "foo" | ( -- 2.11.0-rc2-154-g95ba452916