Re: [RFC] TODO in read-cache.c

>
> trace2 API can already take 'struct repository' (the_repository is a
> pointer to 'struct repository'). I'm pretty sure the purpose is to
> _not_ pass the_repository (because it implies the default repo, which
> is not always true). Which means you read-cache.c's functions need to
> take 'struct repository *' as an argument and let the caller decide
> what repo they want to use.

> In some cases, it will be simple. For example, if you have a look at
> repo_read_index(), it already knows what repo it handles, so you can
> just extend read_index_from() to take 'struct repository *' and pass
> 'repo' to it.
>
> Be careful though, repository and istate does not have one-to-one
> relationship (I'll leave it to you to find out why). So you cannot
> replace