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Re: [PATCH 04/16] grep portability fix: don't use "-e" or "-q"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2008, 22:10 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> System V versions of grep (such as Solaris /usr/bin/grep)
> don't understand either of these options. git's usage of

It might be fair for other System V people to qualify the above statement with "Historic System V" (personally I felt that Solaris without xpg4 was unusable, and I wish you luck tackling it).

More seriously, you would need to disable "when grepping work-tree, running the native grep is faster and just as capable" optimization in builtin-grep.c::grep_cache(). Treat these problematic System V platforms as if they are not __unix__.

I am surprised that you did not have issues with "tail -n$number". Historic way to spell it was "tail -$number" wasn't it?

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Message 17 of 59 in “tr portability fixes”
  1. 01/16 tr portability fixesJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtMar 13, 2008
  3. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  4. 02/16 t0050: perl portability fixJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  5. Johannes SixtMar 13, 2008
  6. 03/16 more tr portability test script fixesJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  7. Frank LichtenheldMar 13, 2008
  8. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  9. Alex RiesenMar 18, 2008
  10. Add test-tr: poor-man tr for the test suiteAlex Riesen, Mar 18, 2008
  11. Use test-tr in the test suiteAlex Riesen, Mar 18, 2008
  12. Jeff KingMar 18, 2008
  13. Alex RiesenMar 18, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2008
  15. Alex RiesenMar 19, 2008
  16. 04/16 grep portability fix: don't use "-e" or "-q"Jeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2008
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2008
  19. 05/16 remove use of "tail -n 1" and "tail -1"Jeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  20. 06/16 add test_cmp function for test scriptsJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  23. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2008
  24. 07/16 t4020: don't use grep -aJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  25. 08/16 t4200: use cut instead of sedJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2008
  27. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2008
  29. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  30. 09/16 t6000lib: tr portability fixJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  31. t/t6000lib.sh: tr portability fix fixBrandon Casey, Mar 14, 2008
  32. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  33. Brandon CaseyMar 14, 2008
  34. t/t6000lib.sh: tr portability fix fixBrandon Casey, Mar 14, 2008
  35. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  36. Brandon CaseyMar 14, 2008
  37. 10/16 add NO_EXTERNAL_GREP build optionJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  38. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2008
  39. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  40. Johannes SixtMar 13, 2008
  41. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  42. Johannes SixtMar 13, 2008
  43. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  44. Johannes SixtMar 13, 2008
  45. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2008
  46. 11/16 config: add --literal-match optionJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  47. Jakub NarebskiMar 12, 2008
  48. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  49. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2008
  50. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  51. 12/16 git-submodule: avoid sed input with no newlineJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  52. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2008
  53. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  54. 13/16 filter-branch: don't use xargs -0Jeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  55. 14/16 filter-branch: use $SHELL_PATH instead of 'sh'Jeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  56. 15/16 t9112: add missing #!/bin/sh headerJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  57. 16/16 t7505: use SHELL_PATH in hookJeff King, Mar 12, 2008
  58. Adam PiatyszekMar 13, 2008
  59. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008

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