On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: >> Yup, an area that is reasonably isolated from the remainder of the system >> like >> this might be a good starting point. But I suspect that the invasion needs to >> happen in the opposite direction in this particular case before it happens. >> That is, if libgit2's implementation does not behave like how we do, it >> needs to >> be fixed, possibly by discarding what they did and instead importing code >> from >> us. After the behaviour of libgit2 is fixed, we can talk about the >> invasion in the >> opposite direction. > > Unfortunately, "importing code from us" is not so easy. :( > > They'll either need to contact the wildmatch authors, or rewrite > wildmatch from scratch.
wildmatch author relicensed it on request before [1] so he might do it again (hard to say). I'm not sure if there are other authors though. But even with wildmatch good to go, there still a lot of work to do. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312/focus=264328 -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html