Re: [PATCH] Avoid bug in Solaris xpg4/sed as used in submodule

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2012, 16:10 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> FWIW, it bothers me a lot more that expression does not anchor
>> matches against path elements with explicit '/' than the issue your patch
>> addresses, i.e.
>>
>> 	sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*/|../|g'
>
> Note that this requires readding a trailing slash to the path, which
> complicates the whole thing a bit.

Or simply swapping order of the stripping and sed invocation, which is not a big deal. I personally find the pattern with trailing '/' easier to grok but it is also not a big deal.