Tian Yuchen [off-list ref] writes:

This series continues the libification effort by migrating the global
string variable 'excludes_file' into 'struct repo_config_values'. Since
this is a dynamically allocated variable, the migration requires proper
heap memory management.

This appears here:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260626075037.532164-1-cat@malon.dev/ (local)

and as you can see, there is no linkage back to the previous round.

The lack of In-Reply-To and References headers unfortunately delays my
automation in marking topics with newer iterations available to be
reviewed when I come back to the keyboard, which happens overnight.