Subject: Re: static variables

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:53:14 -0800

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.