From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:03:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] wt-status: use hash_algo from local repository instead of global the_hash_algo
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZT6ReeaPvJiNh967Sn2p3K8sQKEOOMJ+6-7ZdFO+wr8mg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260131190106.389289-4-shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>

Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com> writes:

> wt-status.c uses the global the_hash_algo even though a repository
> instance is already available via struct repository *r.
>
> Replace uses of the_hash_algo with the hash algorithm stored in the
> associated repository (r->hash_algo).
>
> This removes another dependency on global state and keeps wt-status
> consistent with local repository usage.
>

One final question is, does this mean we can remove
`USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` after these changes? If not, why?