Re: [PATCH] git-mv is not able to handle big directories

> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> 
> >>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> >
> > Junio>             open my $oh, qw(|- git-update-index -z --stdin)
> > Junio>                     or die "oops";
> >
> > This is Perl 5.6 or later.  Breaks on Perl 5.5, which is still in use
> > in some places.
> 
> I should have known better than posting Perl code to the list
> where a real guru is lurking and making afool of myself ;-).
> 
> Thanks for the advice.  How much do we care about 5.5?  IOW, is
> "in some places" wide enough to matter?
> 
> git-cvsimport, git-svnimport and git-shortlog share the same
> problem (svnimport declares that it wants 5.8).  perl58delta.pod
> does say list form of open for pipes is new in that version.  So
> what I wrote above requires 5.8 or better, perhaps?  cvsimport
> uses that same structure.  That is doubly Ouch.