From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:52:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSOC PATCH v6 0/3] environment: remove sparse-checkout related global variables
Message-ID: <xmqq1ppxn0al.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <d61c966b-61ae-4ba9-b983-c8dab6e2c292@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> ... I wonder if instead we could change git_default_config() to expect
> a repository pointer as the callback data and use that to initialize
> things. That would mean that we would not need to move code out of
> git_default_config() to remove global variables and we would retain
> the "last one wins" behavior when two or more config keys such are
> "merge.log" and "merge.summary" set the same variable. It would be
> fairly invasive though as we'd need to pass the repository pointer
> down through all the other callbacks that end up calling
> git_default_config().

Sounds very painful, but it does sound like something worthwhile to
do.

Thanks.