Re: [GSOC PATCH v2 2/2] builtin/prune: stop depending on 'the_repository'

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> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:11:05PM +0530, Ayush Chandekar wrote:
> >> @@ -173,20 +171,19 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc,
> >>      expire = TIME_MAX;
> >>      save_commit_buffer = 0;
> >>      disable_replace_refs();
> >> -    repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &revs, prefix);
> >> +    repo_init_revisions(repo, &revs, prefix);
> >
> > Does this work correctly when running outside of a repository? In
> > general `cmd_prune()` is not executed and would instead die as it is
> > declared as `RUN_SETUP`, without the `_GENTLY` suffix. But when the user
> > asks for help we may still execute the function with a NULL pointer.
>
> Good eyes.  "git prune -h" would safely exit in parse_options() in
> such a case, but this part happens before the parse_options() call.
>