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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2014, #01; Tue, 2)
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:18:00 -0700
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> But IMHO, this topic goes in a wrong direction. "Avoid deprecated
> interfaces" is way overrated. It would be preferable (IMHO) to implement
> setitimer() in compat/ for systems that don't have it.

I think I agree.

Adding compat/setitimer.c that implements git_setitimer() in terms
of whatever is available on the platform and #define calls to
setitimer() away to git_setitimer() would be a lot less intrusive
change than the series posted.

Thanks.