Re: [PATCH v2] t: allow use of "sed -E"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2026, 13:43 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtsuli2ni.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <abKG1U3fVuNV1w_9@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> Yes, I think if nobody has complained about it in three years, we should
> be fine.

This actually started when I noticed a recent rewrite of a test that turned "grep -E ... | sed -e ..." into "sed -E -e ..." was flagged by the test-lint.

It is not a huge deal to rewrite the resulting sed script again to use BRE instead of ERE and it may not be a bad idea doing so anyway (and rewrite the existing t6030). That can be done independently.