From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:07:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am
Message-ID: <20080531220723.GD5907@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <7viqwuffdy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

> "git grep 'tail.*+' -- '*.sh'" says that this will the first and only
> instance of "tail -n +<number>".  The syntax may be POSIX but not all
> /usr/bin/tail unfortunately knows about it.
> 
> I tend to prefer "sed -n -e '3,$p'" for things like this for portability.

I'm fine with that, but I sometimes wonder if systems that do not like
"tail -n +3" really tend to like a "sed -n -e '3,$p'" :)

Well,
Patch v2 follows. (Let's give git-send-email a chance.)

Regards,
  Stephan

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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F