Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix initializing the_hash_algo

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 04:56:38PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> I can certainly try! I start to remember all the hairy details in that
> setup code.
> 
> The first step may be something like this, which identifies all the
> "repo init" entry points. This is basically a revert of e26f7f19b6
> (repository: pre-initialize hash algo pointer - 2018-01-19) and doing
> things the proper way, hopefully.
> 
> This is on 'master', independent from Stefan's series. I have another
> patch on top of that series to remove the use of ignore_env in
> sha1_file.c (and things seem to work). Basically whenever you have to
> initialize the hash algorithm, there's a good chance you need to
> initialize object store as well. But I'll hold that off until
> Stefan's and this one are both merged.

I definitely think this series is an improvement over my previous patch.

My major concern is alarming users (or breaking scripts) with the
warning message.  I wonder if deferring the use of the warning until we
have multiple hash algorithms might be a better idea.  At that point,
the warning would become something people could act upon.
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