Re: [GSoC Patch v2 6/7] repo: add path.grafts with absolute and relative suffix formatting

From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2026, 00:20 UTC
Message-ID: <DB49CF15-4980-4213-8463-4C0FE2EC8438@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260717133015.32040-7-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>

> Introduce `path.grafts.absolute` and `path.grafts.relative` keys to
> `git repo info`. This allows scripting layers to query the active grafts
> context cleanly while scaling transparently with active `GIT_GRAFT_FILE`
> environment variable overrides.

I ran `git repo info path.grafts.relative` in a repository with no `grafts` file, and it returned `.git/info/grafts`, which obviously doesn't exist.

Wouldn't it be better if we check if that file exists before returning this value?

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