From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:34:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] add: remove Perl version of "git add -[pi]"
Message-ID: <xmqqilgio85n.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y906yEGFEIglRyVb@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:30:01PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> After it was made the default we had a next-release regression fix[1],
>> but haven't had any issues since then. Any outstanding bugs in it are
>> something we'd fix in the C code, not something where users are likely
>> to want an escape hatch to scramble back to the Perl implementation.
>
> I'm in favor of dropping the perl version, but note that this paragraph
> isn't quite accurate. There was at least one more regression after that,
> solved by fb094cb583 (Merge branch 'js/add-p-diff-parsing-fix',
> 2022-09-09).
>
> I'd probably leave the final decision on its status to Johannes. This is
> (I think) the last time we discussed it:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/rsrn5988-37n4-7q45-s1o9-6n40rropp120@tzk.qr/
>
> That was 6 months ago, so maybe it's time now.

Sounds good to me, too.