Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] attr: add flag `--source` to work with tree-ish

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 02 2023, Karthik Nayak wrote:

> +static struct attr_stack *read_attr_from_blob(struct index_state *istate,
> +					      const struct object_id *tree_oid,
> +					      const char *path, unsigned flags)
> +{
> +	struct object_id oid;
> +	unsigned long sz;
> +	enum object_type type;
> +	void *buf;
> +	unsigned short mode;
> +
> +	if (!tree_oid)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	if (get_tree_entry(istate->repo, tree_oid, path, &oid, &mode))
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	buf = read_object_file(&oid, &type, &sz);

Here you flip-flop between istate->repo and "the_repository". I think
you want to use repo_read_object_file(istate->repo, ...) instead.