From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:07:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix sed usage in tests to work around broken xpg4/sed on Solaris
Message-ID: <xmqqd1zmzuc7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <55AB6290.2090003@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

>> I really wonder why the previous ">file+ && mv -f file+ file" dance
>> needs to be replaced?
>
> The sed must be replaced because some versions on Solaris choke on the
> incomplete last line in the file.

Switching from sed to perl is not being questioned.

I think Dscho is asking about the use of "-i", when the original
idiom ">target+ && mv -f target+ target" worked perfectly fine.

I.e.

	perl -p -e '...' file >file+ &&
        mv file+ file