From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:01:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9001: avoid not portable '\n' with sed
Message-ID: <xmqq1tv4v6qg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140604184604.GC14457@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> Note that quoted section of POSIX says "embedded in the pattern space";
> under the description of the "s" command, it says:
>
> 	The replacement string shall be scanned from beginning to end.
> 	[...]
> 	The meaning of a <backslash> immediately followed by any
> 	character other than '&', <backslash>, a digit, or the delimiter
> 	character used for this command, is unspecified.

Very true.