Re: [PATCH v6] repository: move fetch_if_missing into struct repository

[Tian Yuchen <cat@malon.dev>]

On 8/15/26 23:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Tian Yuchen <cat@malon.dev> writes:
> 
>> The global variable 'fetch_if_missing' controls whether a missing
>> object check should prompt a lazy fetch from a promisor remote.
>> In order to continue the libification effort, move it into
>> 'struct repository' and initialize it to 1 by default to keep the
>> previous behavior.
>>
>> builtin/fetch-pack.c, builtin/fsck.c, and builtin/rev-list.c are
>> entered via commands marked RUN_SETUP in git.c:commands[]. Their
>> 'repo' parameter is only NULL when '-h' is given outside of a
>> repository, in which case either show_usage_if_asked() or
>> parse_options()'s own '-h' handling exits the process before
>> returning. We can therefore drop their UNUSED markers and assign
>> to 'repo' directly.
>>
>> builtin/index-pack.c is entered via RUN_SETUP_GENTLY, so its
>> 'repo' pointer can be NULL any time it is run outside of a
>> repository, not only with '-h'. We keep a NULL check there and fall
>> back to 'the_repository'.
> 
> Hmph, are there legitimate situations where we run "git index-pack"
> outside a repository, or is it a user error?  Just being curious
> and not a suggestion to change the established behaviour (in other
> words, even if it turns out that it should be diagnosed as a user
> error, we shouldn't do so in the context of changing where the
> fetch_if_missing bit lives).
> 
> Other than that, this iteration looks good to me.
> 

Interesting topic. Refer to the git-index-pack documentation:

...Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, builds a pack 
index file (.idx) for it, and optionally writes a reverse-index (.rev) 
for the specified pack. The packed archive, together with the pack 
index, *can then be placed in the objects/pack/ directory of a Git 
repository*...

Does this clarify that the design intent is to operate a standalone 
.pack file, and whether or not to put it into a repository are two 
different things?

Thanks! yuchen