From: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:30:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libgit
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504170027500.2625-100000@bellevue.puremagic.com>

> Converted git to libgit. Moved all the main() calls into a single
> multi-call binary - git-main.
> Made extern a bunch of functions that were static. Verified it at least
> still minimally worked.
> Note: this is only a first step towards creating a generic library.
> Figuring out what functions and variables *truly* need to be exported,
> renaming them to a git_<function> api, making it thread safe
> ... and not least of all, keeping up with everybody working out of the
> base tree... are problems that remain. Also - cleaning up the UI.

Why do all that static and main rearrangement?  It would be a lot simpler
and cleaner to simply rename the main's in place and add the new
dispatcher by itself.

Later,
Brad