Re: [Outreachy PATCH v2] environment: move "core.attributesFile" into repo-setting

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

On 05/01/2026 14:23, Phillip Wood wrote:

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It is quite common that moving from parsing config settings eagerly by 
calling repo_config() at startup to parsing them lazily via 'stuct 
repo_settings' causes regressions like this. We really should find a way 
to address that before moving more settings into 'struct repo_settings'

See 
https://lore.kernel.org/git/d61c966b-61ae-4ba9-b983-c8dab6e2c292@gmail.com (local) 
for some discussion about a possible solution.

Nice, but I suspect it would be an improvement already without
passing repository instance via git_default_config() and instead
have the code use the_repository; it is even possible not to have
any repository when the callchain executes.