From: Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:18:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warnings before rebasing -i published history
Message-ID: <1339147124-ner-3533@calvin>
In-Reply-To: <vpqfwa618zv.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:52:04 +0200, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Isn't a more conventional way to do that
> 
> sed -e '...' "$1" >"$1".new
> mv "$1".new "$1"
> 
> ?

Is sed -i not portable or what is the reason not to use it?