Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why does this vaguely look familiar, I wonder. I can swear that we > saw a breakage due to a similar pattern that attempts to convert a > global to an arg that is passed down to the callchain but not doing > so fully. Are we revisiting this thread? https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuzlld1d.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ I wonder what happend to the thread at the end ... > Anyway, the diagnoses above look correct and cleanly described. > > Will queue. Thanks.