> If we are plumbing repo into ref stores, it makes sense to get rid of > the_repository in refs/files-backend.c and use ref_store.repo instead. Doing that would mean changing some functions (e.g. should_pack_ref()) to take a ref store or repository parameter, and as it is, I'm not sure if there are still implicit references to the_repository. I think that all these can be done in a separate patch set.
