Right, I get the perspective, I’m just saying that there’s a lot of usecases where I know I don’t want this (PS1, git directory in /tmp, SSH into a shared machine) where I just want simple git commands to work, and a “git --safe” or something would be really helpful. I’m not even sure what the alternative would be here for a lot of these cases, besides writing my own “dumb” porcelain…
Not really any sort of realistic alternative by this point but a distinction between 'programmatic git' where everything is explicit and 'interactive git' that has all the implicit config conveniences would have probably made some difference. It doesn't prevent the specific problem but provides space for less draconian fixes.
