Message ID | pull.1778.git.git.1725555467.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
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Series | Add repository parameter to builtins | expand |
"John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes: > As part of the effort to remove global state of the_repository, add a > repository parameter to builtins so that a repository variable can be passed > down. The patches are ordered as follows: > > 1. Changes the signature of builtins and passes the_repository down in > git.c to be called by all builtins. > 2. Remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.h, and instead add it to > each individual builtin. This paves the way for a migration process > whereby each builtin can be migrated away from using the_repository. > 3. As an example, migrate builtin/add.c to get rid of the_repository by > instead passing the repository argument down into helper functions. As most of the commands require a repository (as they should---those that work without a repository ought to be outliners, things that are needed to bootstrap like "git init" and "git clone", or those that allow us to interact with a remote repository without having any repository on our side to be affected, like "git archive" or "git ls-remote"), I think this probably makes sense as a good first step. And there are commands that are primarily for working with Git, but optionally can work outside a repository. They need to do special things in any case by calling setup_git_directory_gently() with nongit to figure out if they are in the repository, e.g. prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit); if (!nongit) { prepare_repo_settings(the_repository); the_repository->settings.command_requires_full_index = 0; } else { ... do whatever it can outside a repository ... } (note: this was taken from "git diff" with a bit of tweak, but others in the same category should look very similar), so I would imagine that we may want to update setup_git_directory_gently() to be more like: const char *setup_git_directory_gently(struct repository **repo); and the above snippet would become: prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&repo); if (repo) { prepare_repo_settings(repo); repo->settings.command_requires_full_index = 0; } else { ... } IOW, "nongit" Boolean flag we use to say "are we working without a repository?" becomes "the dispatcher in git.c usually gives us the repository in repo, but we asked them not to do the repository setup and we will call setup_git_directory_gently() ourselves, allowing the call to overwrite the repo parameter given." Thanks.