From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:55:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Diffs from CVS keyword expansion
Message-ID: <7v64cqglsm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <86k616m8i9.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Kleine-Koenig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>
> Uwe> 	#! /bin/sh
> Uwe> 	exec perl -i -p -e 's/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/' "$@";
>
> Ow.  My eyes hurt from that.  How about we rewrite that as a native Perl
> script:
>
>     #!/usr/bin/perl
>     $^I = ""; # this is -i
>     while (<>) {
>       s/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/;
>       print;
>     }

That's kinda surprising coming from the resident Perl guru.

I am so used to the command line "-i -p" that I did not even
know what $^I does, and I would have lost without your "# this
is -i" comment.  That alone makes the Uwe's one more readable
for me ;-).