From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:31:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Revert "send-email: extract email-parsing code into a subroutine" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Oswald Buddenhagen writes: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 02:11:20AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: >>The "//" operator was added in perl 5.10. I'm not sure what you found >>that makes you think the ship has sailed. The only hits for "//" I see >>look like the end of substitution regexes ("s/foo//" and similar). >> > grep with spaces around the operator, then you can see the instance in > git-credential-netrc.perl easily. Good find, but given the relative prevalence in use between netrc helper and send-email, my conclusion is rather opposite. It seems to indicate that avoiding "//" would still be prudent if the only tool we can find find broken on 5.008 is the netrc helper.