Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Makefile: add 'check-sort' target

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:59:07 -0700

Denton Liu <[email-masked]> writes:

> +	./check-sort.perl 'int cmd_[^(]*\(' <builtin.h
> +	./check-sort.perl 'int cmd__[^(]*\(' <t/helper/test-tool.h

These two are trivial to see.

> +	./check-sort.perl '\t\{ "[^"]*",' <git.c

This is too brittle to be acceptable.  It FORBIDS us from
introducing initialization for another table to the file.

I won't participate in the bikeshedding of how the Perl script would
be best written ;-)