On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 02:08:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > "John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> git.c | 12 +- > >> help.c | 3 +- > >> stkOs5Qh | Bin 0 -> 10485768 bytes > > > > WTH is this file? > > It turns out to be an "ar" archive full of *.o files. Perhaps > creation of libgit.a was interrupted, then later somebody said > "git add .", and the file somehow ended up as a part of Git. > > I've applied the series after removing the cruft. I've noticed that something leaves behind this garbage from time to time. It's a shame that its name is just random gibberish, because that makes it impossible to set up a gitignore rule for it. > The overall thrust to pass the repository found by the setup step to > builtins as a parameter is a very good one, as most of the Git > commands are designed to work in a repository. Yup, that's the direction we want to move into. We're basically trying to approach getting rid of `the_repository` both bottom-up and top-down now. My changes are bottom up, libifying the low-level subsystems as we go. And this here is the first change going top-down, getting rid of the global dependency in our builtins. Eventually the plan is to meet in the middle. Patrick