From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:25:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsexportcommit: add some examples to the documentation
Message-ID: <86slr6i64r.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <11386015522537-git-send-email-martin@catalyst.net.nz>

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

Martin> +$ git-cherry cvshead myhead | grep '^+' | sed 's/^+ //' | xargs -l1 git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v

My idiom for that grep/sed would be:

  ... | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | ...

Then the grep is not needed, because you're printing only the ones
that you've also modified in a useful way.

Yes, I did a heckuva lot more shell programming long before Perl existed. :)

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