From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:53:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch per-repository speed issues
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607032240260.12404@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <1151990980.4723.132.camel@neko.keithp.com>



On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Keith Packard wrote:
>
>     361 /usr/bin/expr
> 
> someone sure likes 'expr'...

Heh. That's a very Junio thing to do.

Junio seems to like

	if expr "z$string" : "z<regexp>" >/dev/null
	then
		..

and I think he explained it as being the way old-fashioned users do it.

		Linus