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Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: do not use one-or-more (\+) in sed.

From
Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date
Sep 5, 2007, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID
<6E4416B2-FA7C-47C3-B5C6-9E94D8ABE17D@lrde.epita.fr>
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<87bqclngh6.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Nix wrote:
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> On 2 Sep 2007, David Kastrup uttered the following:
>> As usual, <URL:info:autoconf#Limitations%20of%20Usual%20Tools>  
>> (aka as
>> (info "(autoconf) Limitations of Usual Tools")
>> ) provides a real horror show of sed variants.
>
> A goodly number of things in that section of the Autoconf manual are
> passing on hints and ancient legends that may or may not be accurate:
> I've found a number of its descriptions of shell limitations to be
> downright wrong (applying to one build of one shell back in 1981 that
> was never shipped to anyone, that sort of thing).
>
> (Of course it's valuable, even if it *is* a compendium of legends. But
> confirming any of it is quite hard.)

The autoconf maintainers will be glade to hear about such legends or inaccurate things.

Cheers,
-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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Message 11 of 15 in “rebase -m: Fix incorrect short-logs of already applied commits.”
  1. rebase -m: Fix incorrect short-logs of already applied commits.Johannes Sixt, Sep 1, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2007
  3. rebase--interactive: do not use one-or-more (\+) in sed.Junio C Hamano, Sep 1, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 1, 2007
  5. David KastrupSep 2, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2007
  7. David KastrupSep 2, 2007
  8. Simon 'corecode' SchubertSep 2, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 2, 2007
  10. NixSep 2, 2007
  11. Benoit SIGOURESep 5, 2007
  12. NixSep 5, 2007
  13. David KastrupSep 1, 2007
  14. Johannes SixtSep 1, 2007
  15. Robin RosenbergSep 1, 2007

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