From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:46:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: restore the NUL commit separator in --header mode
Message-ID: <xmqq8ttihn9l.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xq5bo-Fwa95j3aynjMP0Qw+PiuMt=hc4ngvTDpeG8nhPw@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> I did some searching, and we do use sed so I replaced it with sed \$!d
> which appears to work. I think we should probably implement a
> test_ends_with_nul or something.

As it is "a stream editor that shall read one or more text files", I
do not think "sed" is any better (or any worse) than "tail -n" from
the portability point of view.  They both may happen to work on GNU
systems.