Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid bug in Solaris xpg4/sed as used in submodule

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:31:08 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> FWIW, it bothers me a lot more that expression does not anchor
> matches against path elements with explicit '/' than the issue your patch
> addresses, i.e.
>
> 	sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*/|../|g'

Note that this requires readding a trailing slash to the path, which
complicates the whole thing a bit.  The effect of * has always been to
use the longest match.

Andreas.

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