Dear maintainers, I have found what I think is a bug or at least a documentation flaw in git-config: when both ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git/config exist, `git config` can retrieve items set in the latter, but not with the `--global` flag set. For context, I use ~/.gitconfig as a non-checked-in machine-specific config, and ~/.config/git/config as my checked-in all-machines configuration file. The documentation states: > When reading, the values are read from the system, global and repository local configuration files by default, and options --system, --global, --local, --worktree and --file can be used to tell the command to read from only that location (see the section called “FILES”). > FILES > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, ~/.gitconfig > User-specific configuration files. When the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is not set or empty, $HOME/.config/ is used as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. > > These are also called "global" configuration files. If both files exist, both files are read in the order given above. Based on this documentation, I would expect `--global` to consider both global configuration files, but it does not. Reproduction: Set some setting in ~/.config/git/config, say: [pull] ff = only Ensure that ~/.gitconfig exists. Then: » git config --global --get user.name » git config --show-scope --show-origin --get user.name global file:/home/jade/.config/git/config Jade Lovelace » git --version git version 2.39.1 Regards, Jade
