Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test cases for git-am

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 15:41:06 -0700

Stephan Beyer <[email-masked]> 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".