Re: Filter-branch's "move tree to subdirectory" example fails with BSD sed?

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Apr 14, 2012, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <4F89CF11.7060309@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120414160028.GD1012@gmail.com>

Am 14.04.2012 18:00, schrieb Christopher Tiwald:

> The "Move tree to subdirectory" example in the 'git filter-branch'
> manpage fails on Mac OSX 10.7.3, but succeeds on Ubuntu 10.04.

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> git init "test"
> cd "test"
> mkdir -p subdirA/subdirB
> echo content > subdirA/subdirB/file
> git add .
> git commit -m "initial commit"
> git ls-files -s | sed "s-\t\"*-&newsubdir/-"
> 
> On Mac 10.7.3 the final command outputs:
> 100644 d95f3ad14dee633a758d2e331151e950dd13e4ed 0	subdirA/subdirB/file
> 
> On Ubuntu 10.04:
> 100644 d95f3ad14dee633a758d2e331151e950dd13e4ed 0	newsubdir/subdirA/subdirB/file

Perhaps a literal TAB instead of \t makes the example work?

It would be difficult, though, to write this down in the manual in an unambiguous way.

-- Hannes