refactor(repolist): simplify repository initialization logic

* Remove redundant allocation and clearing of repository object
* Use shared `the_repository` for initialization and commit time retrieval
* Improve code clarity and reduce memory management overhead

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/ui-repolist.c b/ui-repolist.c
index 9aae04f..7af01bd 100644
--- a/ui-repolist.c
+++ b/ui-repolist.c
@@ -98,20 +98,16 @@ static int repo_last_activity_time(const struct cgit_repo *repo,
 																	 int include_tags,
                                    time_t *out)
 {
-	repo_clear(the_repository);
-
-	struct repository *r = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*r));
-	if (repo_init(r, repo->path, NULL)) {
+	if (repo_init(the_repository, repo->path, NULL)) {
 		error("failed to init repository at %s", repo->path);
-		free(r);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	repo_set_hash_algo(the_repository, hash_algo_by_ptr(r->hash_algo));
-
-	timestamp_t t1 = repo_latest_commit_ctime(r, include_tags);
+	timestamp_t t1 = repo_latest_commit_ctime(the_repository, include_tags);
 	timestamp_t best = t1;
 
+	repo_clear(the_repository);
+
 	if (best <= 0) { *out = 0; return 0; }
 	*out = (time_t)best;
 	return 1;