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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> Junio>             open my $oh, qw(|- git-update-index -z --stdin)
> Junio>                     or die "oops";
>
> This is Perl 5.6 or later.  Breaks on Perl 5.5, which is still in use
> in some places.

I should have known better than posting Perl code to the list
where a real guru is lurking and making afool of myself ;-).

Thanks for the advice.  How much do we care about 5.5?  IOW, is
"in some places" wide enough to matter?

git-cvsimport, git-svnimport and git-shortlog share the same
problem (svnimport declares that it wants 5.8).  perl58delta.pod
does say list form of open for pipes is new in that version.  So
what I wrote above requires 5.8 or better, perhaps?  cvsimport
uses that same structure.  That is doubly Ouch.