From: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:40:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid bug in Solaris xpg4/sed as used in submodule
Message-ID: <1334018233-sup-7389@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7vwr5os9zr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Excerpts from Junio C Hamano's message of Mon Apr 09 20:31:36 -0400 2012:

> > For some reason, I thought that using {x,y} range notation wasn't
> > valid in this scenario, but I think I was mistaken.  It seems to be
> > widely used elsewhere throughout the code.
> 
> Where?  Only two test scripts seem to use it and worse yet, one of them
> uses it doubly incorrectly.

I guess widely wasn't a good choice...My search wasn't narrow enough
earlier.  Was I correct in my original thinking that the range
notation isn't to be used then?

Thanks
-Ben
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