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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	"Ramsay Jones" <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>,
	"Stefano Lattarini" <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>,
	"Ondřej Bílka" <neleai@seznam.cz>,
	"Arnold D . Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 05:59:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbmqx6bbh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1705121214470.146734@virtualbox> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Fri, 12 May 2017 12:15:37 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> - rather than scraping the files from the CGit website (which does not
>   guarantee that the first scraped file will be from the same revision as
>   the last scraped file), I would very strongly prefer the files to be
>   copied from a clone of gawk.git, and the gawk.git revision from which
>   they were copied should be recorded in git.git's commit adding them.

Wow, I didn't even notice that was how the "original" came about.
No question that we should be taking from a known-stable snapshot,
not from a moving target.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-12 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-04 22:00 [PATCH 0/7] Update the compat/regex engine from upstream Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-12  0:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-12 10:15     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-05-12 20:59       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-05-14 19:14         ` arnold
2017-05-15  1:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-15 12:14           ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-05-15 12:51             ` arnold
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/7] compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstream Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/7] fixup! " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-05  5:54   ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-05  6:12     ` [PATCH v2 8/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 4/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 5/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 6/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 7/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 0/7] Update the compat/regex " Junio C Hamano
2017-05-08  6:38   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-08  7:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-12  0:31 ` Junio C Hamano

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