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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of tac in git-rebase--interactive
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:42:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427064250.GA5455@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D73338C-4EC3-4078-8A34-51DAC1842C2B@silverinsanity.com>

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:24:18AM -0400, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> The problem is that tac doesn't exist on my OS X system.  I do appear to 
> have a rev command which does the same thing.  Simply posting a patch that 
> does 472s/tac/rev/ would fix the problem on my system, but the fact that 
> this is an issue raises the question of the relative portability of the 
> two commands.  I don't think we have a declared dependancy on GNU's 
> coreutils, which is where Debian lists tac as coming from.

I know the list will be shocked to hear that Solaris has neither.

An easy perl replacement is:

  perl -e 'print reverse <>'

which should work fine for small-ish input (since it puts the whole
thing in memory).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27  6:24 Use of tac in git-rebase--interactive Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-27  6:42 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-04-27  6:55   ` [PATCH] Use perl instead of tac Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-28  7:44     ` [PATCH] rebase--interactive: Replace unportable 'tac' by a sed script Johannes Sixt
2008-04-28  8:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-28  8:58         ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28  9:04       ` Jeff King
2008-04-28  9:11         ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-28 11:46     ` [PATCH] Use perl instead of tac Jörg Sommer
2008-04-28 12:58       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-04-28 13:12         ` David Symonds
2008-04-28 13:31           ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 14:11           ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-28 14:22             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-28 15:15         ` Jörg Sommer
2008-04-28 17:26           ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-28 17:34           ` Matthieu Moy
2008-04-28 17:50             ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-28 19:13           ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-30  9:02             ` Jörg Sommer
2008-04-30  9:39               ` Jörg Sommer
2008-04-30 16:12                 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-30 15:25               ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-05-04 22:13                 ` Jörg Sommer
2008-05-06  4:32                   ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-28 13:46       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-28 14:07         ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-28 14:20           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-27  7:33 ` Use of tac in git-rebase--interactive しらいしななこ
2008-04-30  0:25   ` Junio C Hamano

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