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Re: [RFC PATCH] config: teach `repo_config()` to allow `repo` to be NULL

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Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>
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Mar 3, 2025, 17:37 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Also, about the testing, I was thinking of using the clar framework or the
> > test-tool, do you have any in mind ?
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> Neither of them seems a good fit for the task to me.
>
> Once you rewrite one of the built-in commands using this and run
> "git $cmd -h" under "nongit" helper, wouldn't that be a good enough
> test to future-proof the codepath?
Thanks for this.

To confirm, You meant using the "nonigt" functions in test files inside the "t/" directory?

Thanks.
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