From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 07:34:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv3 1/4] am: avoid re-directing stdin twice
Message-ID: <xmqqbnqtp5he.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALaEz9Xbk_sAAJ0wNCgC9Rzr=E9Ke0H3YEwGr1_4VNgv0AwYhw@mail.gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:

>>> 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.