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Re: [PATCH 5/6] RelNotes: remove duplicate mention of PCRE v2

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 20, 2017, 15:26 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> That we can link to PCRE v2 is already covered above in "Backward
> compatibility notes and other notable changes", no need to mention it
> twice.

This is actually deliberate, as I'd prefer to have a description that is written at the same detail-level (i.e. "just a bullet item, if you want to know more, go read the doc") as the other items in the list, whether a more detailed description is given elsewhere.

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> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
> index 0e363f2af3..fb6a3dba31 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
> @@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
>     learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
>     looks like so.
>  
> - * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
> -   and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
> + * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT.
>  
>   * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
>     to define common functions/variables that can be used by other
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Message 6 of 12 in “2.14 RelNotes improvements”
  1. 0/6 2.14 RelNotes improvementsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  2. 1/6 RelNotes: mention "log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  3. 2/6 RelNotes: mention "log: make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  4. 3/6 RelNotes: mention "sha1dc: optionally use sha1collisiondetection as a submodule"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  5. 5/6 RelNotes: remove duplicate mention of PCRE v2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  7. 6/6 RelNotes: add more notes about PCRE in 2.14Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  9. 4/6 RelNotes: mention that PCRE v2 exposes the same syntaxÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 21, 2017

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