From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 20:59:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] compat/regex: add a README with a maintenance guide
Message-ID: <xmqqbmqx6bbh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1705121214470.146734@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> - 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.