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

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Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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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