From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:55:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/33] setup: call setup_git_directory_gently before accessing refs
Message-ID: <20160301095542.GA4718@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AiT0=juU0pqBfraCZyk-g9MgEuybOw-0JQyqm9VveUWQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:53:30PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > The basic strategy was to adapt the
> > existing "struct startup_info" to be available everywhere, and have
> > relevant bits of code assert() on it, or even behave differently (e.g.,
> > if some library code should do different things in a repo versus not).
> 
> startup_info is NULL for external programs if I remember correctly, or
> do you make it available to all of them too?

Yes, that was what I meant by "available everywhere". Library code
cannot rely on it right now, as only builtins set it up (even though
external programs may call setup_git_directory()).

-Peff