+void initialize_repository(struct repository *repo)
+{
+ repo->objects = raw_object_store_new();
+ repo->remote_state = remote_state_new();
+ repo->parsed_objects = parsed_object_pool_new();
+ ALLOC_ARRAY(repo->index, 1);
+ index_state_init(repo->index, repo);
+
+ /*
+ * When a command runs inside a repository, it learns what
+ * hash algorithm is in use from the repository, but some
+ * commands are designed to work outside a repository, yet
+ * they want to access the_hash_algo, if only for the length
+ * of the hashed value to see if their input looks like a
+ * plausible hash value.
+ *
+ * We are in the process of identifying such code paths and
+ * giving them an appropriate default individually; any
+ * unconverted code paths that try to access the_hash_algo
+ * will thus fail. The end-users however have an escape hatch
+ * to set GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGO environment variable to
+ * "sha1" to get back the old behaviour of defaulting to SHA-1.
+ *
+ * This escape hatch is deliberately kept unadvertised, so
+ * that they see crashes and we can get a report before
+ * telling them about it.
+ */
+ if (repo == the_repository)
+ set_default_hash_algo(repo);