From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:32:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t6013: replace use of 'tac' with equivalent Perl
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0809011831200.13830@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <41757CC9-DB9B-41C9-A698-E2948F79DC2C@silverinsanity.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> I am reminded of the last time I tried to remove a use of tac from git 
> (rebase -i, to be specific).  I was yelled at for trying to use perl, 
> and "sed -ne '1!G;$p;h'" turned out to be not portable enough.

Please note that using Perl in test scripts is considered less bad than 
using Perl in a shell script which is part of Git's core.

Ciao,
Dscho