Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] tests: use shorter here-docs in chainlint.sed for AIX sed

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:20 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Improve the portability of chainlint by using shorter here-docs. On
>> AIX sed will complain about:
>>
>>     sed: 0602-417 The label :hereslurp is greater than eight
>>     characters
>
> Shortening the names makes them ugly and often unreadable. That's not
> a complaint with this patch; just a general observation regarding
> 8-byte limitation with this platform's "sed" (and POSIX). See a few
> suggested improvements below, but probably not worth a re-roll.
>
>> This, in combination with the previous fix to this file makes
>> GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT=1 (which is the default) working again on AIX
>> without issues, and the "gmake check-chainlint" test also passes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
>
> FWIW,
> Acked-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
>
>> diff --git a/t/chainlint.sed b/t/chainlint.sed
>> -:checkchain
>> +:chkchn
>
> ":chkchain"
>
>>  # found incomplete line "...\" -- slurp up next line
>> -:incomplete
>> +:icmplte
>
> ":fold" (for "fold out NL")
>
>>  # found nested multi-line "(...\n...)" -- pass through untouched
>> -:nestslurp
>> +:nstslurp
>
> ":nesteat"
>
>> -:nestcontinue
>> +:nstcnt
>
> ":nestcont"
>
>> -:nestclose
>> +:nstclose
>
> ":nestend" or ":endnest"
>
>>  # found closing ")" on own line -- drop "suspect" from final line of subshell
>>  # since that line legitimately lacks "&&" and exit subshell loop
>> -:closesolo
>> +:clssolo
>
> ":endsolo"