Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > And that would make your case Just Work. But it's also more dangerous; > if a misconfiguration or transient error caused us to set up an > unexpected environment, then the results could be quite wrong and > confusing. Maybe less so for "git config", but for destructive > operations it's a scarier concept. That is a good point, especially if destructive command is run in a repository the user didn't mean to run it in, it would not be pretty. > In your case, the right resolution is probably to delete the bogus .git > file. Yup, that was what I said in a draft I wrote a few days ago and still in my outbox ;-)