Back when bw/config-h was developed (and backported to Git for Windows), I came up with this patch. It seems to not be strictly necessary, but I like the safety of falling back to the Git directory when no common directory is configured (for whatever reason). Johannes Schindelin (1): do_git_config_sequence(): fall back to git_dir if commondir is NULL config.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) base-commit: 8858448bb49332d353febc078ce4a3abcc962efe Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-78%2Fdscho%2Fbw%2Fconfig-h-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-78/dscho/bw/config-h-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/78 -- gitgitgadget