Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> writes: > >> t9001 used a '\n' in a sed expression to split one line into two lines. >> Some versions of sed simply ignore the '\' before the 'n', treating >> '\n' as 'n'. >> >> As the test already requires perl as a prerequisite, use perl instead of sed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> >> --- > > Hmph. I read this in > pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html > > The escape sequence '\n' shall match a <newline> embedded in the > pattern space. > > so it may be better to be a bit more explicit in the log message to > say whose implementation has this issue to warn people.
"shall match" talks about the match expression, not the replacement. -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html