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Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
May 31, 2012, 14:28 UTC
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Lanny Ripple <lanny@spotinfluence.com> writes:
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> Bingo.
>
>   lanny;~> echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sed -ne 's/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p'
>   GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Rémi Leblond'
>
> Just occurred to me that I'm using fink and that git-am doesn't use
> /usr/bin/sed but just sed.  My suggestion is to be explicit on the
> path in git-am.

Then how would you work around a platform sed that is broken? You can't just install a new one in another directory if we use an absolute path. Which apparently is what people have to do on Solaris, see the SANE_TOOL_PATH setting for the Makefile.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Lanny RippleMay 30, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2012
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  6. Lanny RippleMay 31, 2012
  7. Thomas RastMay 31, 2012
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