Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/5] generate-cmdlist.sh: keep all information in common-cmds.h

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2018, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Drekqn7J0S1F1awaxwLGzrhHy8eUgGQqKAsT-eL-wmMQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQHzB3zLqhRmDKuYk_w8283202x80BcuH7Mu3NqL95cZQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:59 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

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>> +awk '{print $2;}' |
>
> At one time, Junio expressed concerns[2] about having an 'awk'
> dependency in the build system (in fact, with regards to this same
> generation process). Whether he still has such concerns is unknown,
> but it should be easy enough to avoid it here (and below).
>
> [2]: https://public-inbox.org/git/20150519004356.GA12854@flurp.local/

I'll stick with awk to avoid too much headache with regular expressions (replacements are welcome though). We do use awk in our test suite so it should be ok (who builds git and runs it without testing?)

-- 
Duy