Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] help: cleanup the contruction of keys_uniq

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2026, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwlzikpbz.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ+HLjBjtGA9s_ZYYWNjRj_Bax5CkJFa98a-z=LoyEFoQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

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>>         sed \
>>                 -E -e "
>>                 ...
>>         " human |
>>         sort -u
>
> For what it's worth, line folding capability was added to
> check-non-portable-shell.pl by a0a630192d (t/check-non-portable-shell:
> detect "FOO=bar shell_func", 2018-07-13), so it does correctly detect
> the errant -E in this example.

Ah, thanks for correcting me.

But "sed -n -i -e '/.../p'" would not catch "-i", and that is not all that unlikely, I suspect.

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