Re: [PATCH v4 15/20] repository: add index_state to struct repo

Brandon Williams [off-list ref] writes:

That makes sense.  While at it, would it make sense to ensure that the
'struct index_state *' which is stored in 'the_repository.index' be
'&the_index'?

I was imagining (read: speculating one possible future, without
thinking things through to judge if it makes sense at all) that
conceptually most of the current API that works on things in the
current repository to be implicitly working on the_repository
singleton instance in the "repository object" world.

When that happens, the_index can become a CPP macro that translates
to "the_repository.index", I would think.