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Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 12, 2017, 20:59 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> - rather than scraping the files from the CGit website (which does not
>   guarantee that the first scraped file will be from the same revision as
>   the last scraped file), I would very strongly prefer the files to be
>   copied from a clone of gawk.git, and the gawk.git revision from which
>   they were copied should be recorded in git.git's commit adding them.

Wow, I didn't even notice that was how the "original" came about. No question that we should be taking from a known-stable snapshot, not from a moving target.

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Message 5 of 21 in “Update the compat/regex engine from upstream”
  1. 0/7 Update the compat/regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  2. 1/7 compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guideÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 12, 2017
  4. Johannes SchindelinMay 12, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 12, 2017
  6. arnold@skeeve.comMay 14, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017
  8. Johannes SchindelinMay 15, 2017
  9. arnold@skeeve.comMay 15, 2017
  10. 2/7 compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  11. 3/7 fixup! compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  12. Johannes SixtMay 5, 2017
  13. 8/7 fixup! compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 5, 2017
  14. 4/7 fixup! compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  15. 5/7 fixup! compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  16. 6/7 fixup! compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  17. 7/7 fixup! compat/regex: update the gawk regex engine from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 4, 2017
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2017
  19. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 8, 2017
  20. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 12, 2017

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