Re: [PATCH 0/5] Update compat/regex

2010/8/17 Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref]:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Hmm, is there [1/5] in the series?

Yes, but it probably missed the list because of vger's message length
limits.

For convenience, here is the series.  I also think the first two
patches should be combined, but this does not do so because others
might disagree.  Patch 5 (autoconf) is the v2 version.

Pedantic: If there's going to be squashing that should probably
include the regerror change too, otherwise it can't be bisected on
MSVC either.

Personally I think nothing should be squashed, because the history of
having 1 commit be the unaltered gawk library and the rest being the
changes we need on top of it will help future developers when we need
to update the regex library again.

And since most people hacking git probably do so on GNU or the BSD's
which don't need NO_REGEX=YesPlease the practical downside of doing so
is *very* little.