Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] help: cleanup the contruction of keys_uniq

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Amisha Chhajed <amishhhaaaa@gmail.com> writes:
>> > +test_expect_success 'git help --config-for-completion' '
>> > +     file="$GIT_SOURCE_DIR/Documentation/config/add.adoc" &&
>> > +     test_when_finished "git -C \"$GIT_SOURCE_DIR\" checkout -- Documentation/config/add.adoc" &&
>> > +     cat <<-\EOF >>"$file" &&
>> > +     aa*.b::
>> > +     aa.b::
>> > +     EOF
>> > +     git help -c >human &&
>> > +     grep -E \
>> > +          -e "^[^.]+\.[^.]+$" \
>> > +          -e "^[^.]+\.[^.]+\.[^.]+$" human |
>> > +          sed -e "s/\*.*//" -e "s/<.*//" |
>> > +          sort -u >human.munged &&
>>
>> Dedent "sed" and "sort" to the same level as "grep -E".
>
> Also, don't we usually avoid having both `grep` and `sed` in the same
> pipeline like this, considering that `sed` alone should be able to
> handle the job itself?

Yes, we often say "do not pipe output of grep or awk to sed".  I did
not want to burden a bit too much on a contributor who is relatively
new to the list.

Thanks.