"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Let's work around this, simply by ignoring the `includeif.onbranch:` > setting when parsing the config when the ref store has not been > initialized (yet). Interesting chicken-and-egg problem. > Technically, there is a way to solve this properly: teach the refs > machinery to initialize the ref_store from a given gitdir/commondir pair > (which we _do_ have in the early config code path), and then use that in > `include_by_branch()`. This, however, is a pretty involved project, and > we're already in the feature freeze for Git v2.23.0. Postponing the proper fix to the next cycle (or later) is good.