Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ah, sorry that nobody noticed that case, but you are right. Because > the ident is used as a part of the key to find identity-specific > configuration values, if the command line gives one, we must have an > access to it before we start reading the configuration. In that sense, > it is more fundamental to special-case the option. > > We are past -rc0, so I am inclined to revert the change (and perhaps > replace it with the other "fix" that did not break the parsing order > like these patches did), with an expectation that a clever fix will > be found later, *unless* a simple and correct fix is found quickly. Oops, spoke too soon. The topic hasn't escaped to 'master' yet, so I'll make sure it stays that way. Thanks for catching a regression before it gets too late.
