Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Remove the_repository global variable in favor of the repository > argument that gets passed in "builtin/checkout-index.c". > > When `-h` is passed to the command outside a Git repository, the > `run_builtin()` will call the `cmd_checkout_index()` function with `repo` > set to NULL and then early in the function, `show_usage_with_options_if_asked()` > call will give the options help and exit. > > Pass the repository available in the calling context to both `checkout_all()` > and `checkout_file()` to remove their dependency on the global > `the_repository` variable. Hmph, if we are passing anything down to these code paths, I would have expected that it would be an instance of "struct index_state". Do these two helper functions need anything other than that from the repository instance? Other than that, I think this step does look great. Will queue. Thanks.