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Re: [RFC PATCH] config: teach `repo_config()` to allow `repo` to be NULL

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 1, 2025, 19:45 UTC
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Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> writes:
> Also, about the testing, I was thinking of using the clar framework or the
> test-tool, do you have any in mind ?
Neither of them seems a good fit for the task to me.  

Once you rewrite one of the built-in commands using this and run "git $cmd -h" under "nongit" helper, wouldn't that be a good enough test to future-proof the codepath?

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