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[PATCH] t4205: replace .\+ with ..* in sed commands

From
Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Date
Jul 1, 2013, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID
<1372705199-17679-1-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>

OS X's sed only accepts basic regular expressions, which does not allow the + quantifier. However '..*' (anything, followed by zero or more anything) is the same as '.\+' (one or more anything) and valid in any regular expression language.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
---
 t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh b/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh
index 719d132..3cfb744 100755
--- a/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh
+++ b/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ test_expect_success 'left alignment formatting with trunc' "
 message ..
 message ..
 add bar  Z
-$(commit_msg "" "8" ".\+$")
+$(commit_msg "" "8" "..*$")
 EOF
 	test_cmp expected actual
 "
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ test_expect_success 'left/right alignment formatting with stealing' "
 short long  long long
 message ..   A U Thor
 add bar      A U Thor
-$(commit_msg "" "8" ".\+$")   A U Thor
+$(commit_msg "" "8" "..*$")   A U Thor
 EOF
 	test_cmp expected actual
 "
-- 
1.8.3.1.636.g893104c
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