Re: Git 2.7.0 gitignore behaviour regression

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2016, 02:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BGskjxKKw0RGOxSzJYoA2=w_iW_cdrmKyPhpfp+AMmDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160107020406.GA9358@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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>> Yup, an area that is reasonably isolated from the remainder of the system like
>> this might be a good starting point. But I suspect that the invasion needs to
>> happen in the opposite direction in this particular case before it happens.
>> That is, if libgit2's implementation does not behave like how we do, it needs to
>> be fixed, possibly by discarding what they did and instead importing code from
>> us. After the behaviour of libgit2 is fixed, we can talk about the
>> invasion in the
>> opposite direction.
>
> Unfortunately, "importing code from us" is not so easy. :(
>
> They'll either need to contact the wildmatch authors, or rewrite
> wildmatch from scratch.

wildmatch author relicensed it on request before [1] so he might do it again (hard to say). I'm not sure if there are other authors though. But even with wildmatch good to go, there still a lot of work to do.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312/focus=264328

-- 
Duy