On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:20 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<ava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Improve the portability of chainlint by using shorter here-docs. On
> AIX sed will complain about:
>
>     sed: 0602-417 The label :hereslurp is greater than eight
>     characters

Shortening the names makes them ugly and often unreadable. That's not
a complaint with this patch; just a general observation regarding
8-byte limitation with this platform's "sed" (and POSIX). See a few
suggested improvements below, but probably not worth a re-roll.

> This, in combination with the previous fix to this file makes
> GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT=1 (which is the default) working again on AIX
> without issues, and the "gmake check-chainlint" test also passes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>

FWIW,
Acked-by: Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com>

> diff --git a/t/chainlint.sed b/t/chainlint.sed
> -:checkchain
> +:chkchn

":chkchain"

>  # found incomplete line "...\" -- slurp up next line
> -:incomplete
> +:icmplte

":fold" (for "fold out NL")

>  # found nested multi-line "(...\n...)" -- pass through untouched
> -:nestslurp
> +:nstslurp

":nesteat"

> -:nestcontinue
> +:nstcnt

":nestcont"

> -:nestclose
> +:nstclose

":nestend" or ":endnest"

>  # found closing ")" on own line -- drop "suspect" from final line of subshell
>  # since that line legitimately lacks "&&" and exit subshell loop
> -:closesolo
> +:clssolo

":endsolo"

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