lib/PublicInbox/Cgit.pm   | 5 +----
 lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm | 7 +++----

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Cgit.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Cgit.pm
index 8ad07be227345e2d15269128bb46718e0737c8ab..cc729aa286f4bf126de8f7093dab1c37d0b480a2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Cgit.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Cgit.pm
@@ -63,15 +63,12 @@ 		cgit_data => $cgit_data,
 		pi_cfg => $pi_cfg,
 	}, $class;
 
-	# fill in -code_repos mapped to inboxes
-	$pi_cfg->each_inbox($pi_cfg->can('repo_objs'));
-
 	# some cgit repos may not be mapped to inboxes, so ensure those exist:
 	my $code_repos = $pi_cfg->{-code_repos};
 	foreach my $k (keys %$pi_cfg) {
 		$k =~ /\Acoderepo\.(.+)\.dir\z/ or next;
 		my $dir = $pi_cfg->{$k};
-		$code_repos->{$1} ||= PublicInbox::Git->new($dir);
+		$code_repos->{$1} ||= $pi_cfg->fill_code_repo($1);
 	}
 	while (my ($nick, $repo) = each %$code_repos) {
 		$self->{"\0$nick"} = $repo;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
index f2e5d5f0801e4c0f566f51ae654bdc55a5112c38..41117ac535d49678020bdddb4f5e79092794defa 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
@@ -323,9 +323,8 @@ 	}
 	cgit_repo_merge($self, $repo->{dir}, $repo) if $repo;
 }
 
-# parse a code repo
-# Only git is supported at the moment, but SVN and Hg are possibilities
-sub _fill_code_repo {
+# parse a code repo, only git is supported at the moment
+sub fill_code_repo {
 	my ($self, $nick) = @_;
 	my $pfx = "coderepo.$nick";
 	my $dir = $self->{"$pfx.dir"} // do { # aka "GIT_DIR"
@@ -392,7 +391,7 @@ 				warn "invalid coderepo name: `$nick'\n";
 				next;
 			}
 			my $repo = $code_repos->{$nick} //=
-						_fill_code_repo($self, $nick);
+						fill_code_repo($self, $nick);
 			push @repo_objs, $repo if $repo;
 		}
 		if (scalar @repo_objs) {