Dear all, sorry for chiming in so late, I should have done so earlier, being the maintainer of the GNU sed package in Fink. Now, I am not sure if the "git team" and "sed team" referred to here are the upstream authors or the Fink package maintainers... But in any case, let me mention what I know so far:
First off, I can reproduce a problem between git and the GNU sed package. In fact, I just run into this myself a short time ago, while working on converting a big old CVS repository to git, and making extensive use of "git filter-branch". It got stuck in a similar place as Lanny observed. And it also was with a name containing a non-ASCII, unicode character. Thus, it seems the problem is with how GNU sed vs. the system sed handle non-ASCII encodings. This matches very nicely with the minimal example Lanny constructed (thanks for that): On 5/31/12 12:14 PM, Lanny Ripple wrote: > Git uses the sed found on the PATH in git-am. When using sed compiled by > fink it gives incorrect results. > > System sed (expected): > > lanny;~> echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sed -ne > 's/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p' > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Rémi Leblond' > > fink sed (unexpected. .* breaks at é): > > lanny;~> echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw64/bin/sed -ne > 's/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p' > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='R'émi Leblond Interestingly, GNU sed works fine when setting LANG=en_EN.UTF-8, and not setting LC_ALL: echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gsed -ne "s/.*/'&'/p" So, this all boils down to encoding resp. locale settings. Some googling then revealed this: <http://old.nabble.com/Fwd%3A-GNU-sed-version-4.2.1%3A-on-OS-X,-C-locale-gets-aliased-to-UTF-8-td33946970.html>. Based on this, I put in a workaround that works for me and now. But I'll try to discuss this with upstream to find a proper long-term solution. In the meantime, sed 4.2.1-3 should hopefully deal with the problem above, without introducing regressions (finger's crossed) Cheers, Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
