Re: [GSOC PATCH v6 0/3] environment: remove sparse-checkout related global variables

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> Oh, that is the complete opposite of what I had understood. I assumed
> that repo_settings is used to hold some core repository-related config
> settings, especially since there are already quite a few stored there,
> and shifting these to the struct repository would probably clutter it.
> Given that the existing configs in the struct repository are mostly
> 'repository_format_*' and having Patrick address that we embed the
> repository_format in the repository as they were increasing[1], it let
> me to think that we should try not to use the repository to store
> these configs.
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