From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:41:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am
Message-ID: <7vod6mdrlp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080531220723.GD5907@leksak.fem-net>

Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> writes:

>> I tend to prefer "sed -n -e '3,$p'" for things like this for portability.
>
> I'm fine with that, but I sometimes wonder if systems that do not like
> "tail -n +3" really tend to like a "sed -n -e '3,$p'" :)

Why?  sed is as old as V7, which does not have "tail -n".