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Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] help: respect new common command grouping

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 19, 2015, 18:20 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>>
>>> The awk script restricts itself to POSIX, and I did test it on Linux,
>>> Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, so it seems pretty portable.
>>
>> I was worried more about some people only having gawk while others
>> with mawk and yet others nawk, etc., without having one of them
>> under the canonical name "awk".  It's nothing what
>>
>>     $ make AWK=mawk
>>
>> or its config.mak equivalent cannot fix, but still bothers me a bit.
>
> In that case, perhaps we should go with the Perl version, which, given
> that more people (these days) are familiar with Perl than awk, is less
> likely to be a maintenance burden.

As long as we all can agree that the long-term direction we want to go in is to remove dependency on awk, that's fine by me.

That means a small awk scriptlets in t/ and elsewhere need to be rethought, though.

Thanks.
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Message 11 of 12 in “group common commands by theme”
  1. 0/5 group common commands by themeSébastien Guimmara, May 18, 2015
  2. 1/5 command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" sectionSébastien Guimmara, May 18, 2015
  3. 2/5 command-list.txt: add the common groups blockSébastien Guimmara, May 18, 2015
  4. 3/5 generate-cmdlist: parse common group commandsSébastien Guimmara, May 18, 2015
  5. 4/5 command-list.txt: drop the "common" tagSébastien Guimmara, May 18, 2015
  6. 5/5 help: respect new common command groupingSébastien Guimmara, May 18, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2015
  8. Eric SunshineMay 19, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2015
  10. Eric SunshineMay 19, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2015
  12. Sébastien GuimmaraMay 19, 2015

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