From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:28:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx
Message-ID: <87bol4ifvn.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <78E7FEAC-6587-4EB3-B78B-08D321F53BF9@spotinfluence.com>

Lanny Ripple <lanny@spotinfluence.com> writes:

> 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.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch