From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:21:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9700: fix test for perl older than 5.14
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1603041720550.3152@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20160304114321.GA569@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Jeff King wrote:

> Subject: t9700: fix test for perl older than 5.14
> 
> Commit d53c2c6 (mingw: fix t9700's assumption about
> directory separators, 2016-01-27) uses perl's "/r" regex
> modifier to do a non-destructive replacement on a string,
> leaving the original unmodified and returning the result.
> 
> This feature was introduced in perl 5.14, but systems with
> older perl are still common (e.g., CentOS 6.5 still has perl
> 5.10). Let's work around it by providing a helper function
> that does the same thing using older syntax.
> 
> While we're at it, let's switch to using an alternate regex
> separator, which is slightly more readable.

My apologies! And thanks for cleaning up after me.

Ciao,
Dscho