Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> Tanay Abhra <tanay...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I have a question about renaming git_config() to git_config_raw().
>>> I was working on a patch and I am getting stuck here.
>>> It fails in t1001, t1020 & t4018. The reason for the last test failure
>>> is unknown right now. For the first two, it boils down to this,
>>>
>>>             git init --bare bare-ancestor-aliased.git &&
>>>             cd bare-ancestor-aliased.git &&
>>>             echo "[alias] aliasedinit = init" >>config &&
>>>             mkdir plain-nested &&
>>>             cd plain-nested &&
>>>             git aliasedinit
>>
>> Git tries to read .git/config relative to the current directory, and
>> tries to resolve aliases from it. The problem is: if one tries to do
>> this from a subdirectory inside the repo, .git/config is not the right
>> path, and the alias lookup fails.
>>
>> I'll investigate more later.
>
> This fixes the first two tests (it should be squashed into your PATCH 1
> regardless of the rename git_config -> git_config_raw):
>
> commit 42315d10e21a1273b73671a3f8c9f7640c4feb44 (HEAD, config-v9)
> Author: Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@imag.fr>
> Date:   Thu Jul 17 13:12:21 2014 +0200
>
>     clear the config cache in setup_git_dir
>
> diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
> index 0a22f8b..c0d31f5 100644
> --- a/setup.c
> +++ b/setup.c
> @@ -625,6 +625,15 @@ static const char *setup_git_directory_gently_1(int 
> *nongit_ok)
>         int one_filesystem = 1;
>  
>         /*
> +        * We may have read an incomplete configuration before
> +        * setting-up the git directory. If so, clear the cache so
> +        * that the next queries to the configuration reload complete
> +        * configuration (including the per-repo config file that we
> +        * ignored previously).
> +        */
> +       git_config_clear();
Very sensible.


> +       /*
>          * Let's assume that we are in a git repository.
>          * If it turns out later that we are somewhere else, the value will be
>          * updated accordingly.
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