From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:55:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warnings before rebasing -i published history
Message-ID: <7v8vfxetuh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1339147124-ner-3533@calvin>

Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:52:04 +0200, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> Isn't a more conventional way to do that
>> 
>> sed -e '...' "$1" >"$1".new
>> mv "$1".new "$1"
>> 
>> ?
>
> Is sed -i not portable or what is the reason not to use it?

It is a GNUism so it is not portable (check POSIX.1 before asking),
and that is the reason to avoid it.