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Re: [GSoC] Blog: Refactoring in order to reduce Git’s global state

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Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2025, 21:08 UTC
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> Hi everyone!
Hi, Ayush!
> I’m a GSoC contributor working with Git this summer
Me too :-)
> Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, suggestions, or want to chat.

I see that you want to get rid of some usages of 'the_repository'. I don't know if it is in the scope of your project, but something that would help me in my GSoC project is making the function is_bare_repository (environment.c) not dependent of 'the_repository'.

More info here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq7c1genyp.fsf@gitster.g/
Thanks!
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  1. Ayush ChandekarJun 19, 2025
  2. Lucas Seiki OshiroJun 19, 2025
  3. Ayush ChandekarJun 25, 2025

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