From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use a temporary index for interactive git-commit
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:51:26 -0600
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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?