close(fd);
                        return -1;
                }
-               if (index_fd(&the_index, oid, fd, &st, type, NULL, flags) < 0)
+               if (index_fd(the_repository->index, oid, fd, &st, type, NULL, flags) < 0)
                        return error(_("unable to write object to database"));
                /* index_fd close()s fd for us */
        }