This is just a cleanup to avoid errors when compiling with -Wshadow and
to make it safer to later move global variables into a "state" struct.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>