From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:09:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [Outreachy PATCH v2] environment: move "core.attributesFile" into repo-setting
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZTOKvEQaMxymi+mRcqyNy4bZ4JbK2HPtq6CeewjHMo_=g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aVfzMsN2ouY3UBFG@ubuntu>

Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com> writes:
[snip]

> @@ -927,8 +921,13 @@ static void bootstrap_attr_stack(struct index_state *istate,
>  	}
>
>  	/* home directory */
> -	if (git_attr_global_file()) {
> -		e = read_attr_from_file(git_attr_global_file(), flags);
> +	if (istate && istate->repo)
> +		repo = istate->repo;
> +	else
> +		repo = the_repository;
> +	attributes_file_path = repo_settings_get_attributesfile_path(repo);
> +	if (attributes_file_path) {
> +		e = read_attr_from_file(attributes_file_path, flags);
>  		push_stack(stack, e, NULL, 0);
>  	}
>

For my own understanding, when can `istate` be NULL?

[snip]