Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-15 Thread arnold
Hi Johannes, Thanks for the info! I appreciate the background. In the future if you folks do find a bug, please let me know. Thanks! Arnold Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Arnold, > > On Sun, 14 May 2017, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > > With respect to bug fixes that may have happened downst

Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-15 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Arnold, On Sun, 14 May 2017, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > With respect to bug fixes that may have happened downstream, please do > let me know of any. But I do request it as a bug report to > bug-g...@gnu.org and not just a pull request with no commentary. I dabbled with updating our compat/re

Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
arn...@skeeve.com writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin 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 pr

Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-14 Thread arnold
Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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 f

Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin 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 ga

Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-12 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, [replacing Ramsay's email address with a working one] On Fri, 12 May 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > > > diff --git a/compat/regex/README b/compat/regex/README > > new file mode 100644 > > index 00..345d322d8c > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/compat/rege

Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > diff --git a/compat/regex/README b/compat/regex/README > new file mode 100644 > index 00..345d322d8c > --- /dev/null > +++ b/compat/regex/README > @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ > +This is the Git project's copy of the GNU awk (Gawk) regex > +engine. It's used when Gi

[PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

2017-05-04 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Add a README file to compat/regex describing how the copy of the gawk engine should be maintained. Since gawk's regex engine was originally imported in git.git in commit d18f76dccf ("compat/regex: use the regex engine from gawk for compat", 2010-08-17) the Git project has forked the upstream code.