On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:52:43PM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote: > > >> curious: Why get_git_common_dir() instead of get_git_dir()? > > > > > > Needs to be commondir since the config is stored in the common git > > > directory and not a per worktree git directory. > > > > *puzzled* Why wasn't this needed before, then? The rest of the patch > > should result in no functional change, but this part seems different. > > there is no functional change, this is what always happened. > git_path("config") will replace gitdir with commondir under the hood. Of the two callsites you removed, one is git_pathdup(), and the other is get_git_dir(). So they weren't matched, though I suspect the one in include_by_gitdir probably ought to have been commondir? -Peff