From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:19:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: Replace unportable 'tac' by a sed script.
Message-ID: <7v7ieie6hm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <48158070.7090007@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
> ---
> Brian Gernhardt schrieb:
>> -    tac | \
>> +    perl -e 'print reverse <>' | \
>
> Here's my try, which avoids the perl hammer. ;)
> ...
> -	tac | \
> +	sed -ne '1!G;$p;h' | \

Thanks for trying, but frankly, I'd prefer the Perl hammer, as any
advanced sed scripting tend to be far less portable.