Re: BUG: git config --global --get ITEM ignores ~/.config/git/config when ~/.gitconfig is present

Glen Choo [off-list ref] writes:

I mostly agree, except that I think we should leverage the existing
"ignore" flags in "config_options".

Excellent.

The option, e.g. --system, does not have to translate to "let's see
which file does the option mean, OK, it is /etc/gitconfig so do the
same thing as --file /etc/gitconfig".  Instead, we can treat it as
"do the usual config sequence but ignore everything but the system
config".  And that would handle a class like --global that can have
more than one input source in a lot more natural way.

Very good.