Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] p5303: measure time to repack with keep

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:38:08 -0800

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 07:40:40PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > diff --git a/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh b/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
>> > index 277d22ec4b..85b077b72b 100755
>> > --- a/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
>> > +++ b/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
>> > @@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ repack_into_n () {
>> 
>> this construct:
>> 
>> 	... |
>> 	sed -n '1~5p' |
>> 	head -n "$1" |
>>         ...
>> 
>> which is a GNUism.  Peff often says that very small population
>> actually run our perf suite, and this seems to corroborate the
>> conjecture.
>
> Oops. Looks like I was the one who introduced that. Nobody seems to have
> complained, so I'm somewhat tempted to leave it. But it would not be too
> hard to replace with perl, I think.

Yeah, but would it be worth it?  I am actually OK to say that you
need GNU sed if you want to run perf.  We already rely on GNU time
to run perf tests, no?