"Lessley Dennington via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > @@ -421,27 +421,28 @@ static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv) > int status, help; > struct stat st; > const char *prefix; > - > + int run_setup = (p->option & (RUN_SETUP | RUN_SETUP_GENTLY)); > prefix = NULL; Don't lose the blank line that separates the variable declarations and the first statement. Also, it probably makes sense to remove the assignment of NULL to prefix from here (see below). > help = argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"); > -... > + if (help && (run_setup & RUN_SETUP)) > + /* demote to GENTLY to allow 'git cmd -h' outside repo */ > + run_setup = RUN_SETUP_GENTLY; OK. > + if (run_setup & RUN_SETUP) > + prefix = setup_git_directory(); > + else if (run_setup & RUN_SETUP_GENTLY) { > + int nongit_ok; > + prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit_ok); > } Here, we say "depending on how run_setup is specified, we compute the prefix in different ways". So the "we do not run setup, so set prefix to NULL" naturally belongs here. Perhaps something like... if (run_setup & RUN_SETUP) { prefix = setup_git_directory(); } else if (run_setup & RUN_SETUP_GENTLY) { int nongit_ok; prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit_ok); } else { prefix = NULL; } > + precompose_argv_prefix(argc, argv, NULL); > + if (use_pager == -1 && run_setup && > + !(p->option & DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG)) > + use_pager = check_pager_config(p->cmd); > + if (use_pager == -1 && p->option & USE_PAGER) > + use_pager = 1; > + if (run_setup && startup_info->have_repository) > + /* get_git_dir() may set up repo, avoid that */ > + trace_repo_setup(prefix); > commit_pager_choice(); > > if (!help && get_super_prefix()) {