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9568	git-2.14.0	ken@…	ken@…	"New version, from the release notes posted to lkml (but please see after that re pcre):

""Git 2.14 Release Notes
======================

Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.

 * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
   'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
   more explicit '.' for that instead.  The hope is that existing
   users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
   turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
   this (mis)feature.  That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming
   release (yet).

 * Git now avoids blindly falling back to "".git"" when the setup
   sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository.  A corner case that
   happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die(""BUG"").
   We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
   might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
   greatly appreciated.

 * The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual
   diff output has finished, and the ""indent heuristics"" has now
   become the default.

 * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE
   library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
   in existing build scripts to build against the new version.  As the
   upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
   the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.""

For pcre - I don't understand ''how'' configure sets things up, it appears to NOT update the shipped Makefile which is set for installing in ${HOME} and seems to want -DSOMETHING defines for options - but the switches we list are effective.

But I decided to use pcre2 with git in future (I've never bothered with pcre1 in git until now).  Using an env var doesn't seem to use pcre2, and the tests for that are skipped.
Using --with-libpcre2 and alternatively --with-libpcre both fail because in BLFS we don't built the JIT part of pcre/pcre2.

It looks as if --enable-jit is probably the required switch in (at least) pcre2 - not yet tested, if true it will need to be added as an option in both, with (maybe) an extra lib, and comments on the git page that they need to be built with jit enabled. 
"	enhancement	closed	normal	8.1	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed