Subject: Re: [GSOC PATCH v2 2/2] builtin/prune: stop depending on 'the_repository'

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 15:01:30 +0200

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:11:05PM +0530, Ayush Chandekar wrote:
> @@ -173,20 +171,19 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc,
>  	expire = TIME_MAX;
>  	save_commit_buffer = 0;
>  	disable_replace_refs();
> -	repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &revs, prefix);
> +	repo_init_revisions(repo, &revs, prefix);

Does this work correctly when running outside of a repository? In
general `cmd_prune()` is not executed and would instead die as it is
declared as `RUN_SETUP`, without the `_GENTLY` suffix. But when the user
asks for help we may still execute the function with a NULL pointer.

Patrick