"Despite being doucmented, I can't find any sign that it was ever used." (git commit dc87183). Doh.
Bison should be updated, for the other projects I know the maintainers are listening on bug-gnulib. :-)
Paolo 2009-06-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> * autoboot: Do not use GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL. diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap index 2087bab..9d93c86 100755 --- a/build-aux/bootstrap +++ b/build-aux/bootstrap @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ cleanup_gnulib() { } git_modules_config () { - GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL=.gitmodules git config "$@" + test -f .gitmodules && git config --file .gitmodules "$@" } # Get gnulib files.