Config file reading order is important because each file can override
values in the previous files and this is expected behavior. Normally
we read in this order, all in do_git_config_sequence():
1. $HOME/.gitconfig
2. $GIT_DIR/config
3. config from command line
However in read_early_config() the order may be swapped a bit if
setup_git_directory() has not been called:
1. $HOME/.gitconfig
2. $GIT_DIR/config is NOT read because .git dir is not found _yet_
3. config from command line
4. $GIT_DIR/config is now READ (after discover_git_directory() call)
The reading at step 4 could override config at step 3, which is not
the expectation.
Now that we could pass the .git dir around, we could feed
discover_git_directory() back to step 2, so that it works again, and
remove step 4.
Noticed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King came up with a couple examples that demonstrate how the new
read_early_config() that looks harder for the current .git/ directory
could die() in an undesirable way.
Let's add those cases to the test script, to document what we would like
to happen when early config encounters problems.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
So far, we had no explicit tests of that function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
