From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:30:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib-rebase.sh: fake-editor.sh: Allow checking of non-comment lines in $GIT_EDITOR
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In-Reply-To: <1278652843-30872-1-git-send-email-ayiehere@gmail.com>

Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> writes:

> +			sed -i "s/^\([a-z]\+\) [0-9a-f]\+ /\1 $REPLACE_COMMIT_ID /" \

This is not portable. Escaping an ERE element with a backslash does not
make it suitable for use in BRE that sed uses.

Do we use in-place replacement anywhere else with sed?  I don't think it
is portable, either.