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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 15:41:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vod6mdrlp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080531220723.GD5907@leksak.fem-net> (Stephan Beyer's message of "Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:07:24 +0200")

Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> writes:

>> I tend to prefer "sed -n -e '3,$p'" for things like this for portability.
>
> I'm fine with that, but I sometimes wonder if systems that do not like
> "tail -n +3" really tend to like a "sed -n -e '3,$p'" :)

Why?  sed is as old as V7, which does not have "tail -n".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-30 14:04 [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am Stephan Beyer
2008-05-30 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-31  2:40   ` Stephan Beyer
2008-05-31  6:26     ` Mutt and Mail-Followup-To Teemu Likonen
2008-05-31 19:22     ` [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am Junio C Hamano
2008-05-31 22:07       ` Stephan Beyer
2008-05-31 22:11         ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Stephan Beyer
2008-05-31 22:11           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Merge t4150-am-subdir.sh and t4151-am.sh into t4150-am.sh Stephan Beyer
2008-05-31 22:41         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-02 17:53         ` [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am Andreas Ericsson

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