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Re: [PATCH] Support for pickaxe matching regular expressions

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Mar 29, 2006, 13:09 UTC
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Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:16:33AM CEST, I got a letter where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...

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> The regex.h library is a rather stupid interface and I like pcre too, but
> with any luck it will be everywhere we will want to run Git on, it being
> POSIX.2 and all. I'm not sure if we can expect platforms like AIX to
> conform to POSIX.2 or if win32 has regex.h. We might add a flag to
> Makefile if there is a portability trouble potential.

Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:42:00PM CEST, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...

> We already use regex.h (probably my fault).

Indeed, and since noone complained yet, the portability consideration is apparently a non-issue.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.
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  2. Add ALL_LDFLAGS to the git target.Jason Riedy, Mar 28, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  4. Jason RiedyMar 28, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  6. Jason RiedyMar 28, 2006
  7. Mark WoodingMar 28, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsMar 28, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  10. Jason RiedyMar 28, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2006
  12. Mark WoodingMar 28, 2006
  13. Support for pickaxe matching regular expressionsPetr Baudis, Mar 29, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinMar 29, 2006
  15. Petr BaudisMar 29, 2006
  16. Gitk strangeness..Linus Torvalds, Mar 28, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  18. Paul MackerrasMar 28, 2006
  19. Linus TorvaldsMar 28, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  21. Paul MackerrasMar 28, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  23. Paul MackerrasMar 28, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2006
  25. Paul MackerrasMar 28, 2006
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2006
  28. Alex RiesenMar 30, 2006
  29. Paul MackerrasMar 30, 2006
  30. Paul MackerrasMar 30, 2006
  31. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2006
  32. Alex RiesenMar 31, 2006
  33. Linus TorvaldsMar 28, 2006

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