Thanks. I understand that the replace mechanism is lazily initialized so it would be Ok to flip this variable as long as it is done before anybody makes the first call to read_sha1_file(). I am guessing the assignment the patch adds is early enough but I didn't audit the code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html