From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:37:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sed syntax in t7502-commit for OSX
Message-ID: <8aa486160805150237t734b24dcw4a153e41cbc7436e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwslwgdyi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>
> But more importantly, as we are serious about portability, we should not
> be using "sed -i" which is not even in POSIX to begin with.

Is there a way (environment variable, flag) to test if it is POSIX? Or
we just have to know?

I'll send a patch to document the "sed -i" issue in
Documentation/CodingGuidelines.

>  Can we
> rewrite these places without using the in-place extension?

Yes, I'll do it soon if nobody beats me.

Santi