From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 07:36:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove MSys Support
Message-ID: <9933d992-ffd3-b43c-559e-0de819408cda@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmt7lxxr6.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Junio,

On Sun, 18 Dec 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Harshil Jani via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The msysGit and the MSys v1.x has been dropped into this patch and the
> > USE_NED_ALLOCATOR variable was duplicated here in the implementation so its
> > deduplication was also made in this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harshil-Jani harshiljani2002@gmail.com
>
> Thanks, Harshil.
>
> I do not do Windows, so I sent a few drive-by comments to suggest
> improvements that may help to make the patch more understandable,
> but more importantly, I did not see the patch asking input from
> anybody who have worked on the port of Git to the Window system, so
> I ran the following
>
> $ git shortlog -sn --no-merges v2.39.0 -- compat/win\*\* compat/mingw.\* | head -5
>    100	Johannes Schindelin
>     56	Johannes Sixt
>     41	Karsten Blees
>     23	Erik Faye-Lund
>     13	Jeff Hostetler
>
> and then picked those names we still often see on the list to
> attract their attention.

I need to note that Harshil and I have been communicating about this
patch before it was submitted. So here is my explicit ACK.

Ciao,
Johannes