Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Remove excess backslashes from sed

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2010, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <g2xfabb9a1e1004090834y7d9c05f0xf09ef7f5c34c3ab7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdc12mmz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 07:57, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> I wonder if we can make this a lot simpler to avoid multi-line sed script.
> For example, we could write the source Python script to always begin with:
>
>        #!/usr/bin/python
>        import sys;
>        import os;
>        sys.path.insert(0, os.getenv("GITPYTHONLIB","."));

Thank you, I like this a lot better than our current approach. I think it's very ugly that git (needs to) mangle(s) the python files when installing, since that means that line-numbers don't match in stacktraces. I'd definitely prefer using this.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier