Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I'm inclined to agree. > Fixing that is most likely outside the scope of this series, though. Agree. Thanks!
