Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

this patch series removes use of `the_repository` in the refs subsystem
and drops the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro define from those
files.

So the idea is to slowly cleanup usages of `the_repository` and the
`USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro acts as a check for this. I think
the changes look great. I even ran clang-format on this series and apart
from line wrap suggestions, there were no issues.

Thanks for this.

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