From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 20:02:17 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2020, #07; Wed, 20)
Message-ID: <20200520200217.GD20332@Carlos-MBP>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr1vev2ke.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:17:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> * cb/t4210-illseq-auto-detect (2020-05-18) 2 commits
>  - t4210: detect REG_ILLSEQ dynamically and skip affected tests
>  - t/helper: teach test-regex to report pattern errors (like REG_ILLSEQ)
> 
>  As FreeBSD is not the only platform whose regexp library needs
>  REG_ILLSEQ prerequisite, add a logic to detect the prerequisite
>  automatically.

since this does no longer use a prerequisite, it might be probably
better to use somethig like :

As FreeBSD is not the only platform whose regexp library will report
a REG_ILLSEQ error when fed invalid UTF-8, add logic to detect that
automatically and skip the affected tests.

Carlo