Policy on global variables

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:21 PM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> The first step in this direction may actually be useful even if we stick
> with embedding libgit.a.

So what do you think ought to be done with the global-ctx patch? Merge
it, and then refactor afterward (whenever we "step in this
direction"), to get rid of the global? Or use what we have now
(without the patch) as a starting point for gradually getting rid of
the global?