From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:31:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid bug in Solaris xpg4/sed as used in submodule
Message-ID: <m262d8j8dv.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vobr0s8ej.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> FWIW, it bothers me a lot more that expression does not anchor
> matches against path elements with explicit '/' than the issue your patch
> addresses, i.e.
>
> 	sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*/|../|g'

Note that this requires readding a trailing slash to the path, which
complicates the whole thing a bit.  The effect of * has always been to
use the longest match.

Andreas.

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