Re: [PATCH 3/3] show-index: remove global state variables

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2026, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4ioevq0n.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <7b5dd0c4-0ca0-458e-89db-621a70dac9ae@gmail.com>

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

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> I'm increasingly of the opinion that adding a repository argument to the 
> builtin commands was a mistake as they all just use a single repository 
> so using "the_repository" seems perfectly reasonable. It leads to 
> problems like the segfault in this patch and takes attention away from 
> the much more useful task of moving our library code away from using 
> "the_repository".

Very well said ;-)

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