From: Thomas Rast Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:31:20 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.9.3 Message-ID: <877gyx4gkn.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: <7v8vjdsdak.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Thomas Rast writes: > >> For grep, spell the "40 hex digits" explicitly in the regex, instead >> of being lazy with the shell pattern $_x40. > > Actually the shell pattern $_x40 was invented so that it can be used > in both shell, grep and sed; there is nothing *lazy* about it. > > I share the "are you kidding me?!" with you. I cannot fathom which > part of that regular expression is too big for them to swallow. > > In any case, thanks for a quick fix; can I consider it as signed-off? Oh, yes! Sorry about that. I pulled it from the OS X machine which did not have S-O-B appropriately configured. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch