Re: [PATCH] commit-reach: parse commits in the given repository

> ...
> The latter used to be the only symptom. Before bb5da75d61 (commit: use
> commit graph in `lookup_commit_reference_gently()`, 2026-02-16) the
> initial lookup did not record commit-graph positions, so the walk simply
> failed to find the submodule commits in the superproject:
>
>     error: Could not read <commit>
>     Failed to merge submodule sub (commits don't follow merge-base)
>
> Pass the repository into both functions. git-fetch-pack(1) and
> git-upload-pack(1) keep passing `the_repository`.