On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:59:49AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > Since gitfiles were introduced in b44ebb19e (Add platform-independent > .git "symlink", 2008-02-20) the order of checks during .git directory > discovery is: gitfile, gitdir, bare repo. However, that commit did > only partially update the in-code comment describing this order, > missing the last line which still puts gitdir before gitfile. I was confused at first, because your patch only changes to ".git/" to ".git". So there is no ordering change, only a swapping out of one for the other. But that pushes done the ".git/" into the "etc." which is below. So I think this makes sense. Thanks. -Peff