[PATCH 0/6] Update to a more recent Git

[John Keeping]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:08:53AM -0500, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> The reason evidently is that without the static modifier, it caused a
> few warnings about not being forward declared:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg08125.html

I don't think that applies in this case - the functions are declared in
the header file.  It looks to me like those warnings triggered a round
of marking anything that wasn't used elsewhere as private.

> I don't think it should be that much of a hassle, therefore, to
> convince Junio, if we provide a patch that also squelches such
> warnings. That said, we want to tread lightly. Git doesn't provide an
> API, and if we start requesting changes in the name of "api
> interoperability", or what have you, the git mailing list is going to
> tell us to switch to libgit2 and rework a bunch of things. And while
> that might make sense somewhere somehow at some point, it's part of a
> separate debate I really do not want to have right now (and if you're
> thinking about replying to this thread commenting on this sentence and
> mentioning something about libgit2 PLEASE DO NOT -- it's for a
> separate ML thread). So let's use some tact when approaching Junio
> about this.

Well, I've sent a message[1] so we'll see what happens...

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217326