From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"Ramsay Jones" <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>,
"Stefano Lattarini" <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>,
"Ondřej Bílka" <neleai@seznam.cz>,
"Arnold D . Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Update the compat/regex engine from upstream
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 16:03:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtw4v7rty.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4UzmFxDUwTA8JBX-UHDm4+c90qX7VmKqfDi+=783LmdQ@mail.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 8 May 2017 08:38:54 +0200")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> It's just to bring us in line with upstream which as noted in that
> commit has fixed the issues we locally patched (and more), and for us
> to stop maintaining a fork of an old version of part of Gawk.
>
> There's no known issue with the existing engine that I'm aware of
> which impacts git, but given ~7 years of bugfixes & improvements
> there's surely something.
>
>> Having these "fixup!" as separate patches on the list makes them
>> smaller and easier to understand. What do we want to do with them
>> once they are applied? Squash them all up, because these do not
>> have their own explanations in their log message and it is not worth
>> keeping them separate?
>
> Please squash them all up into this commit ("compat/regex: update the
> gawk regex engine from upstream"), as noted having them as separate
> patches was a hack to get around mailing list limits.
>
> Also, un-squashed they'd break the NO_REGEX=Y build for a few commits,
> which would be a pain during bisecting.
OK. Thanks for clarification.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-08 7:04 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
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 [this message]
2017-05-12 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
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