From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:49:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] t7700: demonstrate mishandling of objects in packs with a .keep file
Message-ID: <V78jOMhdYwpSlLU-YzsqEHZxJyrvKbXRQbKsuNPZOEtB8E0kZ5Wi7Q@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <49109FD4.30003@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Brandon Casey wrote:
>> From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
>>
>> Objects residing in pack files that have an associated .keep file are not
>> supposed to be repacked into new pack files, but they are.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
>> ---
>>
>>
>> This version replaces the use of 'head -n -1' with a grep, and should
>> work on
>> all platforms.
>>
> 
> sed 1q is faster, as it stops parsing after the first line (the same as
> 'head
> -n 1' does, but in a more portable fashion).

Except that I wanted all but the _last_ line though.

I didn't think about using sed. Perhaps I could have used something like

   sed -n -e '$q' -e 'p'

The grep works though.

-brandon