Subject: Re: [Outreachy PATCH v2] environment: move "core.attributesFile" into repo-setting

From: Phillip Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 15:00:28 +0000

On 05/01/2026 14:23, Phillip Wood wrote:
> 
> It is quite common that moving from parsing config settings eagerly by 
> calling repo_config() at startup to parsing them lazily via 'stuct 
> repo_settings' causes regressions like this. We really should find a way 
> to address that before moving more settings into 'struct repo_settings'

See 
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked] 
for some discussion about a possible solution.

Thanks

Phillip