From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> This did happen at some stage, and was fixed relatively quickly. Make sure that we detect very quickly, too, should that happen again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- config.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index 4051e38823..db6b0167c6 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -1676,6 +1676,8 @@ static int do_git_config_sequence(const struct config_options *opts, if (opts->commondir) repo_config = mkpathdup("%s/config", opts->commondir); + else if (opts->git_dir) + BUG("git_dir without commondir"); else repo_config = NULL; -- gitgitgadget