Glen Choo <chooglen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > To clarify, does this opinion of "don't use config values that aren't > copied into .git/config" extend to in-tree .gitmodules? Prior to this > series, we always read the in-tree .gitmodules to get the config - the > user does not need to copy the settings to .git/config, but we don't > pick a commit to read .gitmodules from. I think we do, but I also think it was a huge mistake to allow repository data to directly affect the behaviour of local checkout. Fixing that is most likely outside the scope of this series, though.
