Re: [PATCH] stripspace: allow -s/-c outside git repository

> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 22:56, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That makes experimenting with the stripspace command unnecessarily
> > fussy.  Fix it by discovering the git directory gently, as intended
> > all along.
> 
> >         if (mode == STRIP_COMMENTS || mode == COMMENT_LINES) {
> > -               setup_git_directory_gently(NULL);
> > +               setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
> >                 git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
> >         }
> 
> Makes me wonder if `setup_git_directory_gently()` should BUG if it
> receives NULL. That would require some reshuffling in setup.c, since
> `setup_git_directory()` calls out to it with NULL... Just thinking out
> loud. In any case, and more importantly, this is the last user providing
> NULL except for the one in `setup_git_directory()`.