Re: [PATCH] mingw: use OpenSSL's SHA-1 routines

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Am 13.02.2017 um 20:42 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> > I have been operating under the assumption that everybody on Windows
> > who builds Git works off of Dscho's Git for Windows tree, and patches
> > that are specific to Windows from Dscho's are sent to me via the list
> > only after they have been in Git for Windows and proven to help
> > Windows users in the wild.
> >
> > The consequence of these two assumptions is that I would feel safe to
> > treat Windows specific changes that do not touch generic part of the
> > codebase from Dscho just like updates from any other subsystem
> > maintainers (any git-svn thing from Eric, any gitk thing from Paul,
> > any p4 thing Luke and Lars are both happy with, etc.).
> >
> > You seem to be saying that the first of the two assumptions does not
> > hold.  Should I change my expectations while queuing Windows specific
> > patches from Dscho?
> 
> Your first assumption is incorrect as far as I am concerned. I build
> from your tree plus some topics. During -rc period, I build off of
> master; after a release, I build off of next. I merge some of the topics
> that you carry in pu when I find them interesting or when I suspect them
> to regress on Windows.  Then I carry around a few additional patches
> that the public has never seen, and these days I also merge Dscho's
> rebase-i topic.

In addition, you build from a custom MINGW/MSys1 setup, correct?

Ciao,
Johannes