From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:27:57 GMT
Subject: Re: disabling sha1dc unaligned access, was Re: One failed self test on Fedora 29
Message-ID: <xmqqa7i0h7r6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190311182328.GB16865@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The problem to me is not that the steps that a developer has to do, but
> rather that we are dependent on the upstream project to make a simple
> fix (which they may not agree to do, or may take a long time to do).

Yeah.  In practice, I think the recommended way to work for a
depending project like us is to keep a fork in a separate repository
we control of the submodule project, and allow our fork to be
slightly ahead of the upstream while feeding our change to them.