Re: [PATCH v6] repository: move fetch_if_missing into struct repository
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-15 15:58:52
Tian Yuchen [off-list ref] writes:
The global variable 'fetch_if_missing' controls whether a missing object check should prompt a lazy fetch from a promisor remote. In order to continue the libification effort, move it into 'struct repository' and initialize it to 1 by default to keep the previous behavior. builtin/fetch-pack.c, builtin/fsck.c, and builtin/rev-list.c are entered via commands marked RUN_SETUP in git.c:commands[]. Their 'repo' parameter is only NULL when '-h' is given outside of a repository, in which case either show_usage_if_asked() or parse_options()'s own '-h' handling exits the process before returning. We can therefore drop their UNUSED markers and assign to 'repo' directly. builtin/index-pack.c is entered via RUN_SETUP_GENTLY, so its 'repo' pointer can be NULL any time it is run outside of a repository, not only with '-h'. We keep a NULL check there and fall back to 'the_repository'.
Hmph, are there legitimate situations where we run "git index-pack" outside a repository, or is it a user error? Just being curious and not a suggestion to change the established behaviour (in other words, even if it turns out that it should be diagnosed as a user error, we shouldn't do so in the context of changing where the fetch_if_missing bit lives). Other than that, this iteration looks good to me.