Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl

> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi Rich,
> > 
> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 1. is nonzero mod page size, it just works; the remainder of the last
> > > > >    page reads as zero bytes when mmapped.
> > > > 
> > > > Is that a portable assumption?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use
> > a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows.
> > 
> > And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on
> > Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four
> > million reasons: the Git for Windows users.
> 
> I would hope that in the future, git-for-windows users will be using
> musl, via midipix, rather than the painfully slow and awful version
> they're stuck with now...