On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Is it possible to use PCRE2 with Git? If so, how do I tell Git to use PCRE2? > > Given that pcre2's symbols are all prefixed with pcre2_ (I only > checked http://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2api.html) and we > do not see any hits from "git grep pcre2", I do not think you can > just "configure" Git to use it. Unless pcre2 library has a drop-in > replacement backward compatibility mode with pcre library, that is. > > It probably is possible to use PCRE2 with Git by adding similar > amount of code to grep.[ch] as we have support for pcre and that > would be the way you tell Git to use PCRE2, but I think that is > probably not the questino you are asking.
Ack, thanks Jeff and Junio. Its no big deal to me. I'm not a PCRE user, so I'm not familiar with the extra gyrations needed for the migration. I'll get the original PCRE installed. Thanks again.
