Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:15:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Richard Hansen <hans...@google.com> writes: >> ... >> > I think so. (For bare repositories anyway; non-bare should be >> > relative to GIT_WORK_TREE.) Perhaps git_config_pathname() itself >> > should convert relative paths to absolute so that every pathname >> > setting automatically works without changing any calling code. >> >> Yes, that was what I was alluding to. We might have to wait until >> major version boundary to do so, but I think that it is the sensible >> way forward in the longer term to convert relative to absolute in >> git_config_pathname(). > > Yeah, I'd agree. > > I'm undecided on whether it would need to happen at a major version > bump. ... > > So I dunno. I do hate to break even corner cases, but I'm having trouble > imagining the scenario where somebody is actually using the current > behavior in a useful way.
Thanks for a detailed analysis (I probably should have spelt them out when I said "we might have to" to save you the trouble).
