From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:19:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5540-http-push.sh: avoid non-portable grep -P
Message-ID: <76718490902261419r314f6ea4r5eb02e9b5b0c40d0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyc8rhry.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> So perhaps define a variable:
>
> good="\"\(PUT\|MOVE\) .*/objects/$x2/${x38}_$x40 HTTP/[.0-9]*" 20[0-9]\""
>
> and grep for it?

Hmpfh. According to my re_format man page:

Obsolete (``basic'') regular expressions differ in several respects.
`|' is an ordinary character and there is no equivalent for its
functionality.

j.