Re: [PATCH 09/10] tree: stop using the_repository

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Jan 12, 2026, 09:21 UTC
Message-ID: <aWS9Ll8CQ3eILx3z@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <20260109213021.2546-10-l.s.r@web.de>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 10:30:20PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

> Push the use of the_repository to the remaining callers by turning the
> compatibility wrappers into macros, whose use still requires
> USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE to be defined.

Can't we make this step a bit more explicit by adapting all callers to parse `repo_parse_tree()` with `the_repository`? That makes it way more obvious that we rely on the global repository.

Edit: I see that you _do_ edit all callsites in the next commit, nice.

In any case, I'd propose to move the compatibility macros into a section that says something like:

    /* Deprecated wrappers that will be removed once Git 2.53 is released. */

We can then have a follow-up patch in a couple weeks to convert any new callsites that were added meanwhile and then purge the compatibility wrappers.

Thanks!

Patrick