Subject: [PATCH v2 2/5] init: do parse _all_ core.* settings early

From: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:05:06 +0000

From: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>

In Git for Windows, `has_symlinks` is set to 0 by default. Therefore, we
need to parse the config setting `core.symlinks` to know if it has been
set to `true`. In `git init`, we must do that before copying the
templates because they might contain symbolic links.

Even if the support for symbolic links on Windows has not made it to
upstream Git yet, we really should make sure that all the `core.*`
settings are parsed before proceeding, as they might very well change
the behavior of `git init` in a way the user intended.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3414

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
---
 environment.c | 4 ++--
 environment.h | 2 ++
 setup.c       | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index a770b5921d..b65b85a01f 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -324,8 +324,8 @@ next_name:
 	return (current & ~negative) | positive;
 }
 
-static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value,
-				   const struct config_context *ctx, void *cb)
+int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value,
+			    const struct config_context *ctx, void *cb)
 {
 	/* This needs a better name */
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.filemode")) {
diff --git a/environment.h b/environment.h
index 51898c99cd..e61f843fdb 100644
--- a/environment.h
+++ b/environment.h
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ const char *strip_namespace(const char *namespaced_ref);
 
 int git_default_config(const char *, const char *,
 		       const struct config_context *, void *);
+int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value,
+			    const struct config_context *ctx, void *cb);
 
 /*
  * TODO: All the below state either explicitly or implicitly relies on
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 7086741e6c..42e4e7a690 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -2611,7 +2611,7 @@ int init_db(const char *git_dir, const char *real_git_dir,
 	 * have set up the repository format such that we can evaluate
 	 * includeIf conditions correctly in the case of re-initialization.
 	 */
-	repo_config(the_repository, platform_core_config, NULL);
+	repo_config(the_repository, git_default_core_config, NULL);
 
 	safe_create_dir(the_repository, git_dir, 0);
 
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