On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 06:59:19PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 7:21 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > When we run our internal diff-tree to show the bisected commit, we call > > init_revisions(), then load config, then setup_revisions(). But that > > order is wrong: we copy the configured defaults into the rev_info struct > > during the init_revisions step, so our config load wasn't actually doing > > anything. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > It does feel a little weird loading config at all here, since it would > > potentially affect other in-process operations. > > I like that this patch fixes a bug, but this still triggers some > wondering/comments. > > Would it be better or at least less weird to load it at the beginning > of `git bisect`? I guess you mean at the beginning of bisect--helper? That would be OK with me, too, and maybe would be a little less weird. But if bisect is slowly becoming a single binary, maybe we should just wait for that. > Or is the real problem a limitation of the config system, that prevent > us from temporarily loading, and then maybe unloading, some config? It's less the config system, and more the way Git is written. ;) Typically parsing the config means setting a bunch of globals, and forgetting what their original values are. That's not something the config system can fix. -Peff
