From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:09:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin
Message-ID: <7v3ak06jzj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <W_emvcr7ijntBMNCDV17_XHXotGkm1Bn-9Bw-ZixcXmFyBWlDj5vYg@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> It's too late to change diff.*.funcname now, but an alternative fix
> which would probably not require every other platform to use GNU regex,
> is to introduce a new funcname option which would allow extended regular
> expression syntax and to convert the internal regular expressions to
> that format.

That's a very sensible approach, I would agree.