From: arnold@skeeve.com
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 19:14:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide
Message-ID: <201705141914.v4EJETGf029570@freefriends.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbmqx6bbh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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 gawk.git revision from which
> >   they were copied should be recorded in git.git's commit adding them.
>
> Wow, I didn't even notice that was how the "original" came about.
> No question that we should be taking from a known-stable snapshot,
> not from a moving target.

Gawk's regex has been fairly stable of late.  But marking the revision
from which you take the regex is a good idea in any case.

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-gawk@gnu.org
and not just a pull request with no commentary.

Thanks,

Arnold