Re: [PATCH/RFC] Build a shared / renamed / "stable" version of the library?

Junio C Hamano wrote:

 - Management of even the most basic data structures used in
   libgit.a shares the "run once" mentality.  I can offhand
   think of three but I am sure there are more:

   - active_cache: once you are done with the current cache, it
     is very hard to reinitialize and use it without losing
     memory [*2*];

*2* Hopefully this will be fixed when Chuck is done but the work
and the discussion has just been started and I do not know how the
timeframe of this cache abstraction cleanup meshes with 1.0
timeframe.

well, i kept the "run-once" mentality.  if that's something you'd like 
to go away, i can do that too, at some later point.