Re: [Outreachy PATCH v5 2/3] environment: stop using core.sparseCheckout globally

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2026, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqqzr8b85c.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <5e56e1cc4172cfff9e917a068184e102aa70bf1d.1769256839.git.belkid98@gmail.com>

Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com> writes:

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> The config value `core.sparseCheckout` is parsed in
> `git_default_core_config()` and stored globally in
> `core_apply_sparse_checkout`. This could cause it to be overwritten
> by another repository when different Git repositories run in the same
> process.
>
> Move the parsed value into `struct repo_config_values` in the_repository
> to retain current behaviours and move towards libifying Git.
>
> Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
> Mentored-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com>
> ---

A lot of changes, almost all of which are mechanical

    s/core_apply_sparse_checkout/the_repository->config_values.apply_sparse_checkout/

changes, which is very straight-forward.

The same comment applies. Do we want programs to require calling repo_config_values_init(), or should we rely on program load-time initialization, like all these globals that are moved to the repo_config_values struct used to do?

I do not have a good answer to this question, but so far, these two global variables that were both zero initialized for being in BSS do not *need* initialization byh an explicit runtime assignment that repo_config_values_init() allows us to do.