From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: static variables
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:53:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131211015314.GJ2311@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131211014501.GI2311@google.com>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Stefan Zager wrote:
>> This is probably a naive question, but: there are quite a lot of static
>> variables in the git code where it's really unnecessary. Is that just a
>> historical artifact, or is there some reason to prefer them?
>
> Sometimes it's for convenience.
See for example path.c::git_path and mkpath.
Threaded code uses a specialized thread-safe dialect of the usual C
used in git. I wish I had better news to offer.
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2013-12-11 1:25 static variables Stefan Zager
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