On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 04:27:21AM +0530, Usman Akinyemi wrote:

Remove the_repository global variable in favor of the repository
argument that gets passed in "builtin/ls-files.c".

When `-h` is passed to the command outside a Git repository, the
`run_builtin()` will call the `cmd_ls_files()` function with `repo` set
to NULL and then early in the function, `show_usage_with_options_if_asked()`
call will give the options help and exit, without having to consult much
of the configuration file.

Let's pass `repository` argument to `expand_objectsize()`,
`show_ru_info()` functions to remove their dependency on the global
`the_repository` variable.

This paragraph made my reading hickup a bit. How about:

    Pass the repository available in the calling context to both
    `expand_objectsize()` and `show_ru_info()` to remove their
    dependency on the global `the_repository` variable.

Patrick