Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2017, #04; Fri, 12)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> * ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup (2017-05-12) 15 commits
>>  - grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
>>  - grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
>>  - SQUASH???
>>  - grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
>>  - grep: add tests for grep pattern types being passed to submodules
>>  - grep: amend submodule recursion test for regex engine testing
>>  - grep: add tests for --threads=N and grep.threads
>>  - SQUASH???
>>  - grep: change non-ASCII -i test to stop using --debug
>>  - grep: add a test for backreferences in PCRE patterns
>>  - grep: add a test asserting that --perl-regexp dies when !PCRE
>>  - log: add exhaustive tests for pattern style options & config
>>  - test-lib: rename the LIBPCRE prerequisite to PCRE
>>  - grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexp
>>  - Makefile & configure: reword inaccurate comment about PCRE
>>
>>  (what is queued here is only the early part of a larger series)
>
> What's the reason for only queuing it up to this point?

No particular reason other than there is only so many hours in a day
and running out of time reading and queuing patches.

>> * ab/compat-regex-update (2017-05-12) 3 commits
>>  - DONTMERGE compat/regex: make it compile with -Werror=int-to-pointer-cast
>>  - compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstream
>>  - compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide
>>
>>  Update compat/regex we borrowed from gawk.  It seems that some
>>  customizations we made to the older one were dropped by mistake.
>
> Do you prefer that I pick up JS's "compat/regex: fix compilation on
> Windows" patch & re-send, or for you to add that on top after that
> discussion is resolved?

The tip one is what I did only to see if that is the only reason why
Windows build is failing, without knowing Dscho did essentially the
same one hours before.  I'd prefer to drop it myself, and ask you
and Dscho to work the solution out, as I am farther than Dscho to
the machinery that can be used to validate the fix ;-)