Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-bisect: war on "sed"

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
> the shorter form without sed is arguably more readable:
>
> -		echo "$head" | sed 's#^refs/heads/##' >"$GIT_DIR/head-name"
> +		echo "${head#refs/heads/}" >"$GIT_DIR/head-name"

Er, I suppose -- if you are acquainted with that particular shell
variable syntax (I suspect knowledge of sed is far more widespread).

[personally, I know that syntax has something to do with replacing
something with something else, but really haven't much clue other than
that, and I always _thought_ it was bash-specific and so avoided using
any of that stuff.]

-miles
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