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Re: [PATCH] pre-commit.sample: don't use [...] around a tr range

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2009, 09:43 UTC
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<81b0412b0909210243h58633509r7b427c69f62928fe@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> However, if the use of [] is deliberate, because git still
> cares about portability to ancient SYSV versions of tr that
> require that notation, then let me know and I'll undo that part
> of the change and add a comment to that effect.

We have (had?) people trying to support Git on HP-UX and SunOS. Do these count?

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