From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:41:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid perl in t1300-repo-config
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706280041i535efdf0r87e552551b796044@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyykog4e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>

On 6/28/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > It fixes the test on system where ActiveState Perl is used.
> > It is also shorter.
> > ...
> > -git config --null --list | perl -0ne 'chop;($key,$value)=...
> > +git config --null --list | xargs -n1 -0 echo 'Key:' > result
>
> This now makes us rely on "xargs -0", which is probably much
> less portable than Perl isn't it?

Dunno. Have yet too meet a system where it doesn't work.
That said, SUSv6 does not mention it.

> Maybe postprocess "git config -z" output with "tr '[\000]' 'Q'"
> or something so that the comparison of the result does not have
> to worry about NULs?  I dunno.

Will try that.

> By the way, is it possible for gmail users to avoid attachments
> when sending patches in?

No. The message text is unpredictably garbled