Re: [PATCH 1/2] merge-recursive: prepare merge_recursive() to be called from builtins
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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
- Date
- Aug 11, 2008, 16:46 UTC
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- <20080811164631.GK18960@genesis.frugalware.org>
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- <20080811151303.GA11208@leksak.fem-net>
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:13:03PM +0200, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hmm, I have the long-run vision that we have a nice libgit some day,
That would be nice, but in that case I would start avoiding die() which is an awful amount of work... (There were multiple threads on the list previously.)
> with merge_recursive() being part of it. And I'm a little unsure if > libified functions should rely on environment variables.
Well, many libs do this. Random example: ld.so relies on LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well.
Anyway sure, using function parameters instead of env vars is more elegant.