From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:51:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use a temporary index for interactive git-commit
Message-ID: <20101230025126.GA1868@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1293670038-8606-1-git-send-email-conrad.irwin@gmail.com>

Conrad Irwin wrote:

> I'm not sure that adding parameters to functions willy-nilly is the best
> way of doing this. Can anyone suggest a cleaner mechanism?

Would a simple

	setenv(INDEX_ENVIRONMENT, index_file);

in the caller make sense?