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Re: [PATCH] add definitions for global variables to shell.c

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2008, 23:09 UTC
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Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:49:53AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
>> Why not just revert 5b8e6f85f (shrink git-shell)? It was a nice try. If it
>> had not proved as a maintainance burden, it would have had merits. But who
>> these days cares whether git-shell takes 300K or 30K in the light of that
>> it goes out of the way anyway by execing some other process at the first
>> opportunity?
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.  Doing this in a clean way would require more
> restructuring in the code.  So far this change started a chain of changes
> where each change tried to solve one issue and caused a more severe one.
>
> Though it would not only be 5b8e6f85 to be reverted but also 78568448 that
> tried to fix up problems that 5b8e6f85 caused.

I have no issue with that. Some people also mumbled about auditability, which I did not find particularly convincing.

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Message 8 of 13 in “add definitions for global variables to shell.c”
  1. add definitions for global variables to shell.cRobert Schiele, Aug 18, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2008
  3. Robert SchieleAug 19, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2008
  5. Robert SchieleAug 19, 2008
  6. Johannes SixtAug 19, 2008
  7. Robert SchieleAug 19, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2008
  9. 1/2 shell: do not play duplicated definition games to shrink the executableJunio C Hamano, Aug 20, 2008
  10. 2/2 Build-in "git-shell"Junio C Hamano, Aug 20, 2008
  11. Johannes SixtAug 20, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2008
  13. Robert SchieleAug 20, 2008

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