From: René Scharfe Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:24:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdiff-interface: stop using the_repository Message-ID: <267102b2-3ec1-4508-bf90-ccc69516669c@web.de> In-Reply-To: On 2/9/26 6:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > René Scharfe writes: > >>>> - ptr->ptr = odb_read_object(the_repository->objects, oid, &type, &size); >>>> + ptr->ptr = odb_read_object(odb, oid, &type, &size); >>>> if (!ptr->ptr || type != OBJ_BLOB) >>>> die("unable to read blob object %s", oid_to_hex(oid)); >>>> ptr->size = size; >> >> My initial version did that. Then I realized that read_mmblob() is just >> a thin odb_read_object() wrapper that converts null_oid to >> empty_blob_oid and dies on non-blobs, though, so requiring a full repo >> pointer seemed excessive. And all callers also use other odb_* >> functions already. > > Absolutely. Passing the narrowest thing the callee needs is the > right approach and that is what is done in the version posted. > > Thanks. I presume that a small and final reroll is expected, if > only to remove the now unnecessary #include, if not splitting it > into three parts? Right, and still keeping it all in one patch, now that it has become slightly shorter. :) René