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Re: [PATCH] Avoid problem with xpg4 grep in Solaris that broke t9400

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JHJunio C Hamano <jch@google.com>
Date
Apr 19, 2012, 16:55 UTC
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Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca> writes:
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> Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Mon Apr 09 16:13:29 -0400 2012:
>
> Bump?
> ...
>> It's possible that the specific pair of grep statements is required.
>> It's looking for tab or space, so maybe we get either character in
>> some cases, depending on cvs version?
Bump, anybody, on this point?
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>> If there is a reason for the original construction, I'll find a more
>> creative work around for this problem.
>> 
>>  t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
>> index 9199550..df1405f 100755
>> --- a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
>> +++ b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
>> @@ -500,8 +500,8 @@ test_expect_success 'cvs status (no subdirs in header)' '
>>  cd "$WORKDIR"
>>  test_expect_success 'cvs co -c (shows module database)' '
>>      GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs co -c > out &&
>> -    grep "^master[     ]\+master$" < out &&
>> -    ! grep -v "^master[     ]\+master$" < out

Is it really the character class, or is it the GNUism "\+", that breaks this?

In other words, does it work if you patch it like this instead?
 t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
index 9199550..173bf3d 100755
--- a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
+++ b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
@@ -500,8 +500,8 @@ test_expect_success 'cvs status (no subdirs in header)' '
 cd "$WORKDIR"
 test_expect_success 'cvs co -c (shows module database)' '
     GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs co -c > out &&
-    grep "^master[	 ]\+master$" < out &&
-    ! grep -v "^master[	 ]\+master$" < out
+    grep "^master[	 ][ 	]*master$" <out &&
+    ! grep -v "^master[	 ][ 	]*master$" <out
 '
 
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