From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:18:00 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2014, #01; Tue, 2)
Message-ID: <xmqqoauwy0lz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5406B4EF.3050301@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> But IMHO, this topic goes in a wrong direction. "Avoid deprecated
> interfaces" is way overrated. It would be preferable (IMHO) to implement
> setitimer() in compat/ for systems that don't have it.

I think I agree.

Adding compat/setitimer.c that implements git_setitimer() in terms
of whatever is available on the platform and #define calls to
setitimer() away to git_setitimer() would be a lot less intrusive
change than the series posted.

Thanks.