On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 8:30 PM Kapil Jain <jkapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 5:49 PM Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:14 PM Kapil Jain <jkapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > In some cases, it will be simple. For example, if you have a look at
> > > > repo_read_index(), it already knows what repo it handles, so you can
> > > > just extend read_index_from() to take 'struct repository *' and pass
> > > > 'repo' to it.
> > > >
> > > > Be careful though, repository and istate does not have one-to-one
> > > > relationship (I'll leave it to you to find out why). So you cannot
> > > > replace
> > >
>
> at a lot of place where, read_index_from() is called, the repo struct
> is not available, so i am passing `the_repository` in those calls.
> this makes me wonder if this is really required, because most of the
> places just don't have repo.

We're still in a transition period where many places still assume the
default repo (so yes don't have "repo" or "r" argument). Once
everything is converted, the_repository should only appear in very few
places and will be passed down as "r" argument to all functions.
-- 
Duy

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