Re: [PATCH 00/14] Stop using `the_repository` in some trivial cases

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 07:43:47AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this small patch series performs some refactorings to stop using
> > `the_repository` in several subsystems. There wasn't really any
> > criterium for which subsystems I picked, except that all of them have
> > been trivial to convert.
> > 
> > In this patch series I'm merely bubbling up `the_repository` one more
> > layer even though some calling contexts already have a repository
> > available. For the sake of triviality I decided not to handle these
> > cases though and instead let a future patch series worry about them.
> > 
> 
> Actually, I am excited to see that we remove the global variable
> "the_repository" in some subsystems because I have seen every patch with
> "<subsystem>: stop using `the_repository`".
> 
> By this, we make the problem smaller, which is good. I have read through
> all the patches, which looks to me.