From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:52:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix sed usage in tests to work around broken xpg4/sed on Solaris
Message-ID: <9b162fbacc41120c8c6edc053a017ba5@www.dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd1zmzuc7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Hi,

On 2015-07-20 18:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> 
>>> I really wonder why the previous ">file+ && mv -f file+ file" dance
>>> needs to be replaced?
>>
>> The sed must be replaced because some versions on Solaris choke on the
>> incomplete last line in the file.
> 
> Switching from sed to perl is not being questioned.
> 
> I think Dscho is asking about the use of "-i", when the original
> idiom ">target+ && mv -f target+ target" worked perfectly fine.
> 
> I.e.
> 
> 	perl -p -e '...' file >file+ &&
>         mv file+ file

Thanks for translating from Dscho to English.

Ciao,
Dscho