Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think the decision of whether to go with this approach or the alternative > listed below depends on the validity of a 'repository' without a gitdir. > > As far as I can tell, there is an implicit conflict between the changes in: > > 1. b66d84756f (commit-graph: respect 'commitGraph.readChangedPaths', > 2020-09-09) > 2. 44c7e62e51 (repo-settings: prepare_repo_settings only in git repos, > 2021-12-06) (as you pointed out in your message) > > The former says that commit-graph should use a repository setting (implying > it needs a valid repository), and the latter says that you need a valid > gitdir to get repository settings. > > So to me, how to proceed depends on whether a repository can be "valid" > without a gitdir or not: Sorry, I do not get it. What does "a repository without a git dir" look like? It does not make any sense to me. A repository without working tree, I can understand.
