Re: r-cran-git2r uses private header files of libgit2 (Was: Help with libgit2 needed to strip code copy from r-cran-git2r)

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Dirk,

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:51:45AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> I had some friendly emails with Stefan (git2r upstream) when he started the R
> package git2r (as I needed some features in my drat R package) and he
> expressed quite some frustration at working with libgit2 as it changed so
> much upstream.
> 
> I know we collectively really hate embedding copies, but r-cran-git2r may be
> defensible case because libgot2 is too complex / volatile.

Thanks for your insight, uploaded with code copy.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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