From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:05:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t6013: replace use of 'tac' with equivalent Perl
Message-ID: <41757CC9-DB9B-41C9-A698-E2948F79DC2C@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <48BBE682.2070000@op5.se>


On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Thomas Rast wrote:
>> So I would favour this fix.  I think this should be ok because we
>> depend on Perl anyway.
>
> If it isn't, you could always do
> 	sed '1!G;h;$!d'
> or
> 	sed -n '1!G;h;$p'
> instead.
>
> Both of them are very portable indeed.

I am reminded of the last time I tried to remove a use of tac from git  
(rebase -i, to be specific).  I was yelled at for trying to use perl,  
and "sed -ne '1!G;$p;h'" turned out to be not portable enough.   
Eventually the command was re-written not to need the reversal.

Junio seems to think perl is just fine, judging by next, so I guess  
I'll just give up trying to second guess what the list wants.  :-/

~~ Brian