Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] Make diff plumbing commands respect the indentHeuristic.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 1, 2017, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq60hkgnwq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170501051528.tpw3zlcpercdwdln@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> PS Outside of our test scripts, I'd probably just have written:
>
>      perl -lpe 'print "extra line" if $. == 2'
>
>    I think we have traditionally preferred sed/awk to perl, but given
>    the heavy use of vanilla perl elsewhere in the test suite, I think
>    that is maybe just superstition at this point.

I would have avoided sed with 'a', 'i' and 'c' in one-liners myself, and a Perl script like the above would probably have been my choice.

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