Re: [RFC PATCHv3 1/4] am: avoid re-directing stdin twice
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Sep 6, 2014, 07:34 UTC
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Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> I see Stephen who wrote the original "Thunderbird save-as" is >>> already on the Cc list. How about doing it this way instead? > > It was so long ago I can't even remember writing that patch. But I > googled the thread from 4.5 years ago and I see that you suggested we > use tr because \r is not portable[1].
Hmph. That's unfortunate that this may be one of those things that even though it is in POSIX the real world prevents us from using it.
I wonder if things changed over the past four years, though. Can folks on OSX or BSD do a quick check?
Thanks.