Re: [PATCH 0/8] CMake build system for git

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2020, 23:16 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4kt47c5k.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BE4qBquBwHp6QH31WNcQ-jUMrC+SqCbnBWKtCxdhoWRCQ@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

>> If it lived in contrib/ that might strike a good balance between making
>> it available for people to experiment with, but not having people
>> confuse it for the official build system.

If we declare cmake support is only for VS and throw it into somewhere like contrib/buildsystems, that may be good enough.

> Maybe we could move configure.ac and config.mak.in into contrib as well?

Perhaps.

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