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From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Kevin Willford <Kevin.Willford@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] p3400: stop using tac(1)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 22:42:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3377973-4f4a-376a-f02e-94a3b20dd9ad@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVyppmEGkNCxZ+5L@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Am 05.10.21 um 21:38 schrieb Jeff King:
> Right, that works. It does introduce an extra awk process per
> invocation, though I doubt that really matters all that much. The diff I
> showed in my earlier response works totally in shell, like the current
> test_seq().

In my mind, test is an external command.  Wikipedia [1] says it has been
a builtin since the early 80ies, and I couldn't find a shell without it.
I wonder where I picked up that outdated assumption -- I'm not actually
_that_ old.  Time for an update..

René


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_(Unix)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-02 17:44 [PATCH] p3400: stop using tac(1) René Scharfe
2021-10-04  8:31 ` Jeff King
2021-10-05 18:45   ` René Scharfe
2021-10-05 19:38     ` Jeff King
2021-10-05 19:54       ` René Scharfe
2021-10-07 20:42       ` René Scharfe [this message]
2021-10-07 23:44         ` Junio C Hamano

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