"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The fix is simple: load the default Git config in cmd_merge_tree(). > This may also fix other behaviors that are effected by reading default > config. The only possible downside is a little extra computation time > spent reading config. The config parsing is placed after basic argument > parsing so it does not slow down usage errors. Presumably merge-tree wants to serve a low-level machinery that gives reliable reproducible result, we may want to keep the configuration variables we read as narrow as practical. The default_config() callback may still be wider than desirable from that point of view, but I guess that is the most reasonable choice? Thanks.