On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:27:35AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

I dunno. This is one of those dark corners of the code where we appear
to do the wrong thing, but nobody seems to have noticed or cared much,
and changing it runs the risk of breaking some obscure cases. I'm not
sure if we should bite the bullet and try to address that, or just back
away slowly and pretend we never looked at it. ;)

I will point out that with the SHA-256 work, reading the config file
becomes essential for SHA-256 repositories, because we need to know the
object format. Removing the config file leads to things blowing up in a
bad way (what specific bad way I don't remember).

That may influence the direction we want to take in this work, or not.
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