1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/repository.c b/repository.c
index 95d10cc4a0..9825a30899 100644
--- a/repository.c
+++ b/repository.c
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@
 #include "promisor-remote.h"
 #include "refs.h"
 
+/*
+ * We do not define `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` in this file because we do
+ * not want to rely on functions that implicitly use `the_repository`. This
+ * means that the `extern` declaration of `the_repository` isn't visible here,
+ * which makes sparse unhappy. We thus declare it here.
+ */
+extern struct repository *the_repository;
+
 /* The main repository */
 static struct repository the_repo;
 struct repository *the_repository = &the_repo;