diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c
index 849eed553e..9ac455d889 100644
--- a/archive.c
+++ b/archive.c
@@ -336,5 +336,7 @@ int write_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
 	parse_treeish_arg(argv, &args, prefix);
 	parse_pathspec_arg(argv + 1, &args);
 
+	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
+
 	return ar->write_archive(&args);
 }
diff --git a/builtin-archive.c b/builtin-archive.c
index 432ce2acc6..5ceec433fd 100644
--- a/builtin-archive.c
+++ b/builtin-archive.c
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ int cmd_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	const char *remote = NULL;
 
-	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
-
 	remote = extract_remote_arg(&argc, argv);
 	if (remote)
 		return run_remote_archiver(remote, argc, argv);
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index da768ee7ac..b0223c3419 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -811,11 +811,16 @@ EOF
 }
 
 sub patch_update_cmd {
-	my @mods = grep { !($_->{BINARY}) } list_modified('file-only');
+	my @all_mods = list_modified('file-only');
+	my @mods = grep { !($_->{BINARY}) } @all_mods;
 	my @them;
 
 	if (!@mods) {
-		print STDERR "No changes.\n";
+		if (@all_mods) {
+			print STDERR "Only binary files changed.\n";
+		} else {
+			print STDERR "No changes.\n";
+		}
 		return 0;
 	}
 	if ($patch_mode) {
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index ef6d773df1..f90ddac908 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ sub read_repo_config {
 		my $v = $opts->{$o};
 		my ($key) = ($o =~ /^([a-zA-Z\-]+)/);
 		$key =~ s/-//g;
-		my $arg = 'git-config';
+		my $arg = 'git config';
 		$arg .= ' --int' if ($o =~ /[:=]i$/);
 		$arg .= ' --bool' if ($o !~ /[:=][sfi]$/);
 		if (ref $v eq 'ARRAY') {
diff --git a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
index e395ff4e34..0f27d73049 100755
--- a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
+++ b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ test_expect_success \
      git update-ref HEAD $(TZ=GMT GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2005-05-27 22:00:00" \
      git commit-tree $treeid </dev/null)'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'create bare clone' \
+    'git clone --bare . bare.git &&
+     cp .gitattributes bare.git/info/attributes'
+
 test_expect_success \
     'remove ignored file' \
     'rm a/ignored'
@@ -73,6 +78,14 @@ test_expect_success \
     'git archive vs. git tar-tree' \
     'diff b.tar b2.tar'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'git archive in a bare repo' \
+    '(cd bare.git && git archive HEAD) >b3.tar'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git archive vs. the same in a bare repo' \
+    'test_cmp b.tar b3.tar'
+
 test_expect_success \
     'validate file modification time' \
     'mkdir extract &&
@@ -151,6 +164,14 @@ test_expect_success \
     'git archive --format=zip' \
     'git archive --format=zip HEAD >d.zip'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'git archive --format=zip in a bare repo' \
+    '(cd bare.git && git archive --format=zip HEAD) >d1.zip'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git archive --format=zip vs. the same in a bare repo' \
+    'test_cmp d.zip d1.zip'
+
 $UNZIP -v >/dev/null 2>&1
 if [ $? -eq 127 ]; then
 	echo "Skipping ZIP tests, because unzip was not found"