Re: [PATCH] git-mv is not able to handle big directories

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 23, 2005, 08:37 UTC
Message-ID: <7vu0e369p4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <867jazre78.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

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>>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> Junio>             open my $oh, qw(|- git-update-index -z --stdin)
> Junio>                     or die "oops";
>
> This is Perl 5.6 or later.  Breaks on Perl 5.5, which is still in use
> in some places.

I should have known better than posting Perl code to the list where a real guru is lurking and making afool of myself ;-).

Thanks for the advice. How much do we care about 5.5? IOW, is "in some places" wide enough to matter?

git-cvsimport, git-svnimport and git-shortlog share the same problem (svnimport declares that it wants 5.8). perl58delta.pod does say list form of open for pipes is new in that version. So what I wrote above requires 5.8 or better, perhaps? cvsimport uses that same structure. That is doubly Ouch.