Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] PCRE v2, PCRE v1 JIT, log -P & fixes

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> >>
>> >> Will continue with testing Git for Windows using PCRE2 next week and keep
>> >> you posted,
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot for testing it. Great to hear that it (definitely almost) works!
>> >
>> > If the grep tests it's very likely that all of them will pass, the
>> > only tests I run when developing this series (outside of the full run
>> > for list submission) are t[0-9]*grep*.sh t[0-9]*log*.sh tests, since
>> > those are the only ones impacted by it.
>>
>> 'ab/pcre-v2' was marked for 'next' in "What's cookin" a few issues
>> ago, but I'll keep it in 'pu' to wait for the above---please give me
>> a go ahead when we all are happy with the topic.  I expect to be
>> offline in the later part of this week, by the way.
>
> It turns out that the entire test suite passes when I enable PCRE2. I will
> try to make the packages available generally in Git for Windows' SDK
> tomorrow.

Great to hear, thanks a lot for testing this & packaging pcre2 for Windows.