From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 05:27:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] t: introduce tests for unexpected object types
Message-ID: <xmqqsgut9idx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190405185241.GG2284@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I don't think it is, but I could be wrong. POSIX does say that "\n"
> matches a newline in the pattern space, but nothing about it on the RHS
> of a substitution. I have a vague feeling of running into problems in
> the past, but I could just be misremembering.

Yes, it was quite bad on minority platforms like AIX when I had to
touch it the last time.