From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:20:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/14] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options
Message-ID: <7vzkkrjec2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1309938868-2028-8-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> The variable "me" is left as a file-scope static variable because it
> is not an independent option.  "me" is simply a string that needs to
> be inferred from the "action" option, and is kept global to save each
> function the trouble of determining it independently.

Would it make more sense to remove the variable, pass "action" around
where only "me" is passed around right now, and introduce a function
"static const char *action_name()" to help places that wants textual
command name for display purposes?