There is a scenario where no config is resolved during branch inheirtance, this falls back to default config, which is inherit.

Jake Ginnivan · Jake Ginnivan · commit 4b8cb311b419 · 2017-12-04T18:21:25.000+08:00
This causes infinite recursion. This fixes #1195
diff --git a/src/GitVersionCore/Configuration/ConfigurationProvider.cs b/src/GitVersionCore/Configuration/ConfigurationProvider.cs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public class ConfigurationProvider
         public const string SupportBranchKey = "support";
         public const string DevelopBranchKey = "develop";
 
-        private const IncrementStrategy DefaultIncrementStrategy = IncrementStrategy.Inherit;
+        private const IncrementStrategy DefaultIncrementStrategy = IncrementStrategy.Patch;
 
         public static Config Provide(GitPreparer gitPreparer, IFileSystem fileSystem, bool applyDefaults = true, Config overrideConfig = null)
         {

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public class ConfigurationProvider`
`30`	`30`	`public const string SupportBranchKey = "support";`
`31`	`31`	`public const string DevelopBranchKey = "develop";`
`32`	`32`
`33`		`- private const IncrementStrategy DefaultIncrementStrategy = IncrementStrategy.Inherit;`
	`33`	`+ private const IncrementStrategy DefaultIncrementStrategy = IncrementStrategy.Patch;`
`34`	`34`
`35`	`35`	`public static Config Provide(GitPreparer gitPreparer, IFileSystem fileSystem, bool applyDefaults = true, Config overrideConfig = null)`
`36`	`36`	`{`