From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Cc: "Sébastien Guimmara" <sebastien.guimmara@gmail•com>,
"Git List" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] help: respect new common command grouping
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:20:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq617o8m5o.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cS15yzwbcdb-yLH5QiMoxa0utmaJaDDz=W9WfWd+PL37A@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Tue, 19 May 2015 12:35:58 -0400")
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com> writes:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com> writes:
>>
>>> The awk script restricts itself to POSIX, and I did test it on Linux,
>>> Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, so it seems pretty portable.
>>
>> I was worried more about some people only having gawk while others
>> with mawk and yet others nawk, etc., without having one of them
>> under the canonical name "awk". It's nothing what
>>
>> $ make AWK=mawk
>>
>> or its config.mak equivalent cannot fix, but still bothers me a bit.
>
> In that case, perhaps we should go with the Perl version, which, given
> that more people (these days) are familiar with Perl than awk, is less
> likely to be a maintenance burden.
As long as we all can agree that the long-term direction we want to
go in is to remove dependency on awk, that's fine by me.
That means a small awk scriptlets in t/ and elsewhere need to be
rethought, though.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-19 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 19:18 [PATCH v8 0/5] group common commands by theme Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] command-list.txt: add the common groups block Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] command-list.txt: drop the "common" tag Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] help: respect new common command grouping Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-18 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-19 0:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-19 16:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-19 16:35 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-19 18:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-05-19 17:57 ` Sébastien Guimmara
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