Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] help: respect new common command grouping
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
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- May 19, 2015, 16:35 UTC
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes: > >> The awk script restricts itself to POSIX, and I did test it on Linux, >> Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, so it seems pretty portable. > > I was worried more about some people only having gawk while others > with mawk and yet others nawk, etc., without having one of them > under the canonical name "awk". It's nothing what > > $ make AWK=mawk > > or its config.mak equivalent cannot fix, but still bothers me a bit.
In that case, perhaps we should go with the Perl version, which, given that more people (these days) are familiar with Perl than awk, is less likely to be a maintenance burden.