On 06/13, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:52:43PM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote:
>
> > > >> curious: Why get_git_common_dir() instead of get_git_dir()?
> > > >
> > > > Needs to be commondir since the config is stored in the common git
> > > > directory and not a per worktree git directory.
> > >
> > > *puzzled* Why wasn't this needed before, then? The rest of the patch
> > > should result in no functional change, but this part seems different.
> >
> > there is no functional change, this is what always happened.
> > git_path("config") will replace gitdir with commondir under the hood.
>
> Of the two callsites you removed, one is git_pathdup(), and the other
> is get_git_dir(). So they weren't matched, though I suspect the one in
> include_by_gitdir probably ought to have been commondir?
Good point, I hope my reply on the other part of the thread answers
this.
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Brandon Williams
