Re: git-daemon: needs /root/.config/git/config?

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

I could be remembering wrong, but I thought it was not so much "under
consideration" as "accepted for 1.8.4".  I haven't heard any
compelling reasons not to apply it.

Would it would make sense against earlier releases as well?

True; the patch is queued on a topic that forks from maint-1.8.2
exactly for this reason.