Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> So you are comparing >> >> * requiring bash and C.UTF-8 locale to be available >> >> vs >> >> * requiring git built with PCRE >> >> assuming that "Dscho says doesn't work with PCRE and you say it >> works with PCRE" is resolved? They seem roughly the same >> difficulty to me. > > We can hard depend on a git built with PCRE, since the point of this > thing is to run in GitHub CI, Ubuntu builds git with PCRE, and that's > unlikely to ever change. Yes, so is the availability of bash and C.UTF-8 for the same reason: we are talking about controlled environment. That is what I meant by "roughly the same difficulty to me". FWIW, I am OK with either approach, as I find the patch in question is just as readable as any rewrite that would use "grep -P", so...
