Re: [GSoC][Draft Proposal v4] Refactoring in order to reduce Git's global state

Hi Phillip,

Thank you so much for taking the time to review both my patch and my GSoC proposal draft.

You are right on all points:

1. I now agree that commit encoding being a user/environment preference 
rather than a repository-specific attribution. My example was indeed a 
flawed assumption.

2. Thank you for catching the contradiction between my patch and my 
proposal's guiding principles. However, I changed it to lazy-loading not 
because I didn't follow the workflow I wrote, but because I thought the 
original eagerly parsing behavior was *incorrect*. But since I now 
understand point 1 above, this is no longer an issue to me anymore.

3. I deeply appreciate you pointing out that the GSoC ideas page might 
be misleading. I will study through the link you provide.

Thank you again for steering me in the right direction!

Regards,

Yuchen