Re: [PATCH] Test case portability fix.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 26, 2005, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505251935210.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7fug2i4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> This is the remainder of testcase fix by Mark Allen to make them
> work on his Darwin box.  I was using "xargs -r" (GNU) where it
> was not needed, sed -ne '/^\(author\|committer\)/s|>.*|>|p'
> where some sed does not know what to do with '\|', and also
> "cmp - file" to compare standard input with a file, which his
> cmp does not support.
> 
> Author: Mark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>
> Author-Date:

Btw, do this as

	From: Mark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>

at the top of the email body, and my patch-application scripts will automatically do the right thing.

The Author-date thing you might as well drop for now..

		Linus