Re: [Outreachy PATCH v2] environment: move "core.attributesFile" into repo-setting

From: Bello Olamide <belkid98@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2026, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAD=f0L9BEPSQivgpM7qURT+WFDY-+Ys_M6Knv8hE0JDw4Wjj5A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwm1vk83a.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 at 23:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 05/01/2026 14:23, Phillip Wood wrote:
> >>
> >> It is quite common that moving from parsing config settings eagerly by
> >> calling repo_config() at startup to parsing them lazily via 'stuct
> >> repo_settings' causes regressions like this. We really should find a way
> >> to address that before moving more settings into 'struct repo_settings'
> >
> > See
> > https://lore.kernel.org/git/d61c966b-61ae-4ba9-b983-c8dab6e2c292@gmail.com
> > for some discussion about a possible solution.
>
> Nice, but I suspect it would be an improvement already without
> passing repository instance via git_default_config() and instead
> have the code use the_repository; it is even possible not to have
> any repository when the callchain executes.

Thank you Junio. Okay, should I move the variable into the repo struct or repo-settings struct as the case may be, then initialize it in git_default_config()?

For example
`
         if (!strcmp(var, "core.attributesfile")) {
              FREE_AND_NULL(the_repository->settings.git_attributes_file);
              return
git_config_pathname(&the_repository->settings.git_attributes_file,
var, value);
            }
`
Does this sound reasonable?

Also the `git_default_core_config()` is used to initialize the variables to store the settings in the "core" section of the config file. So how about other functions like `git _default_branch_config()`, `git _default-sparse_config()`. Do I use the same approach above?

Thanks