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From: "Célestin Matte" <celestin.matte@ensimag.fr>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "Célestin Matte" <celestin.matte@ensimag.fr>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, benoit.person@ensimag.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-remote-mediawiki: Fix a bug in a regexp
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:08:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B38F44.6080304@ensimag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqmwr0v45b.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Le 08/06/2013 20:38, Matthieu Moy a écrit :> This is right, but the code
actually worked the way it was. I'm not
> sure, but my understanding is that '\n' is the string "backslash
> followed by n", but interpreted as a regexp, it is a newline.
>
> The new code looks better than the old one, but the log message may be
> improved.

Is this better?

"
In Perl, '\n' is not a newline, but instead the string composed of a
backslash followed by an "n". To match newlines, one has to use the /\n/
regexp. As the output of "rev-list --first-parent" is line-oriented,
what we want here is to match newlines, and not the "\n" string.
"

-- 
Célestin Matte

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-08 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-08 13:35 [PATCH] git-remote-mediawiki: Fix a bug in a regexp Célestin Matte
2013-06-08 18:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-08 20:08   ` Célestin Matte [this message]
2013-06-09  2:57   ` Jeff King
2013-06-09  5:21     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-06-09  5:11 ` Eric Sunshine

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