Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: do not use one-or-more (\+) in sed.

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 2, 2007, 07:20 UTC
Message-ID: <85zm05ttxz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy1xr1lz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Just for the record: I believe that \{1,\} might be portable.
>
> Yeah, I obviously looked at the page I quoted that describes
> what's in and what's not in BRE definition ;-)

> As a maintainer of a public project I understand you have to deal
> with the current set of variations, and you might know better than
> me about the current portability situation.

Don't ask. That was what "just for the record" was about. In practice, one uses the most simplistic expressions (and then some) and prays, and your patches are quite in line with that.

Basically, one has to bear up under attack from two sides: the Windows side with its idiosyncratic file names (and habitual spaces) under the Cygwin and MSYS environments (which are quite Posix and GNU), and the non-Posix madness from all sorts of Unices all across the utilities.

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