diff -r 9becd05476b8 -r 131f8cd2c2b4 mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py
--- a/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py	Fri Jun 30 03:45:41 2017 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py	Fri Jun 30 03:45:42 2017 +0200
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
 
         def rawentries(subdir="", **map):
 
-            descend = self.ui.configbool('web', 'descend', True)
+            descend = self.ui.configbool('web', 'descend')
             collapse = self.ui.configbool('web', 'collapse')
             seenrepos = set()
             seendirs = set()