From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:14:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Reftable support git-core
Message-ID: <CAOw_e7YPzLb-zR+NVCR=-cNJg_43Q0E758RBJubqDdgYR=tNww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8skyfnxm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:10 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> It is OK (and indeed you're right that you cannot avoid it) to ship
> a reasonably new snapshot as a fallback in such a case, but it still
> is far more preferrable to avoid linking with the fallback snapshot
> copy when a working one is available on the system, especially for a
> widely used and established library like zlib, because we have one
> less thing to keep up-to-date with the security patches made to the
> upstream.

what is the procedure for doing this? Do I need to write autoconf
macros (oh no!) ?

I've added a comment for now in system.h

>  reftable/.gitattributes | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

thanks, I've put this in.
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