Hi Antonio, the subject line could also be fetch: fix custom submodule location as I was not expecting this patch from the subject line. On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx> wrote: > Import the default git configuration before accessing the gitmodules > file. > > This is important when a value different from the default one is set via > the 'core.submodulesfile' config. > > Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx> > --- > builtin/fetch.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c > index dcdfc66f0..d56636f74 100644 > --- a/builtin/fetch.c > +++ b/builtin/fetch.c > @@ -1428,8 +1428,8 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) > strbuf_addf(&default_rla, " %s", argv[i]); > > - config_from_gitmodules(gitmodules_fetch_config, NULL); > git_config(git_fetch_config, NULL); > + config_from_gitmodules(gitmodules_fetch_config, NULL); Wouldn't this break the overwriting behavior? e.g. you configure a submodule URL in .gitmodules and then override it in .git/config, then we'd currently first load config from the modules file and then override it in git_config(git_fetch_config,..), whereas swapping them might have unintended consequences? Do the tests pass with this patch?