git-var: constness and globalness cleanup.

var.c::git_var read function did not have to return writable
strings; make it and the functions it points at return const char *
instead.

ident.c::get_ident() did not need to be global, so make it
static.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index c7c6637b1..6ac94c5a1 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -263,9 +263,8 @@ void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize);
 unsigned long approxidate(const char *);
 
 extern int setup_ident(void);
-extern char *get_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str);
-extern char *git_author_info(void);
-extern char *git_committer_info(void);
+extern const char *git_author_info(void);
+extern const char *git_committer_info(void);
 
 static inline void *xmalloc(size_t size)
 {