Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] Introduce `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

this is the second version of my patch series that introduce a new
`USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro. If undefined, then declarations
like `the_repository`, `the_hash_algo` and a subset of functions that
implicitly depend on either of these are hidden away.

;-)