Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > For now the ignore_env bit lives in the repository, as that helps > when working with submodules, when reading its comments. > Unfortunately 359efeffc1 (repository: introduce the repository > object, 2017-06-22) did not reason about the existence of the ignore_env > flag in its commit message. > >> So from that point of view, it may not matter where the "bit" lives, >> among repository, object-store, or ref-store. > > It matters on the scale of confusing the developer? What I meant is that from the point of view, having the bit in the data (not on the invocation) is confusing no matter which data structure holds it--they are equally bad.