On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 at 10:33, Bello Olamide [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 at 23:28, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

But won't this be a temporary solution since the goal is to prevent the use of
`the_repository`?