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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

The result would look like this two-patch series.

 [1/2] shell: do not play duplicated definition games to shrink the executable
 [2/2] Build-in "git-shell"
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