On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 02:43:59PM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote: > On 24/08/07 08:57AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > +# ifdef USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE > > +# include "strbuf.h" > > +# include "repository.h" > > Naive question, what is the purpose of providing the include statements > here? Wouldn't they always already be included? Not necessarily, no. Most headers only have a forward declaration of `struct strbuf` and `struct repository`. For one this means that we cannot access the strbuf contents like we do in the function definitions in this header now. Second, it means that we cannot access `the_repository`. Patrick
