Re: What's in git.git (Oct 2008, #03; Tue, 14)

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:

Two questions:

  1) Should a5a5a048 be in maint?
     "xdiff-interface.c: strip newline (and cr) from line before pattern matching"

I would have forked a maint-fix topic to prepare a merge of this fix to
both 'maint' and 'master' but apparently this was applied directly on
'master'.  I may be missing a valid reason why Shawn did it this way.

If we can add a test case to demonstrate the existing breakage, I think we
can (and should) cherry-pick it to 'maint'.

  2) Do we want to stick with compat/regex on

      Darwin: Arjen
     FreeBSD: Jeff
         AIX: Mike

     now that the builtin funcname patterns have been converted to Extended
     Regular Expressions?

Mike already said AIX does not need to, and I expect others would say
their native regexp library can grok ERE just fine.  Let's wait for others
to confirm and then remove the compat/regex thing.