Subject: [GSOC PATCH v2 0/2] mailmap: reduce global state

From: Burak Kaan Karaçay <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:04:40 +0300

Hi,

This patch series aims to reduce the global variable dependency of the
mailmap subsystem:

  - Patch 1 eliminates the implicit 'the_repository' dependency in the
    'read_mailmap' and 'read_mailmap_blob' functions by adding a
    'struct repository' parameter.

  - Patch 2 removes the 'git_mailmap_file' and 'git_mailmap_blob' global
    variables, shifting to on-demand configuration reading via the config
    set helpers and using local variables.
    
Changes in v2:
  - Forward declare 'struct repository' in mailmap.h
  - Fix whitespace problems

Thanks to Junio for the kind words and for catching the 'make hdr-check' issue.

Burak Kaan Karaçay (2):
  mailmap: stop using the_repository
  mailmap: drop global config variables

 builtin/blame.c         |  2 +-
 builtin/cat-file.c      |  2 +-
 builtin/check-mailmap.c |  4 ++--
 builtin/commit.c        |  2 +-
 builtin/log.c           |  2 +-
 builtin/shortlog.c      |  2 +-
 environment.c           | 19 -------------------
 mailmap.c               | 30 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
 mailmap.h               |  9 ++++-----
 pretty.c                |  2 +-
 ref-filter.c            |  2 +-
 11 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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