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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-05-06 15:48:55 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-05-07 08:30:17 -0700
commit41429cb4e4ef452e843c126a6ff185998da43431 (patch)
tree79cf13a4c7d2d254c6ff4e620c81f397a6133d56 /lib/commit.tcl
parent7a7b6022670c7946afea73a1eeb2ddc32d756624 (diff)
t6011: fix misconversion from perl to sed
No, this is not about a quiz on regexp compatibility between Perl and sed. Back when cdbdc6bf (t: refactor tests depending on Perl substitution operator, 2025-04-03) rewrote many uses of perl with sed, the general pattern of the original scripts were chmod +w some_read_only_file && perl -p -e "regexp to munge" some_read_only_file >some_tmp && mv some_tmp some_read_only_file persumably because the author knew that replacing some_read_only_file with "mv" at the last step would not work without "mv -f" in some environments (GNU seems to succeed without giving any prompt when not running interactively, which is what happens when running t/ scripts). Replacing perl with sed would be fine as long as sed with updated regexp does the equivalent munging. But one place used to use a different construct in the original: perl -i.bak -p -e "regexp to munge" some_read_only_file With _no_ temporary file or "mv", "perl -i" allows you to replace a read-only file in place. When we replaced the use of "perl" with "sed" in the said commit, however, because "sed -i" is not portable, we rewrote that in-place replacement to sed "regexp to munge" some_read_only_file >some_tmp && mv some_tmp some_read_only_file Again, unfortunately that does not work in some environment, without "mv -f". We could run "mv -f" here, but we would then need to remove "chmod +w" and have them use "mv -f" instead at all places that were touched cdbdc6bf (t: refactor tests depending on Perl substitution operator, 2025-04-03) to be consistent (and more concise). For now, let's make it consistent in the other direction by mimick the other places that made the target read-write before moving. Speaking of portability, the outcome of using "sed" on non-text files is unspecified, so the entire exercise of cdbdc6bf may have needed to be reverted if people still used ancient version of "standard compliant" sed that barfs on non-text files, but these days we may be able to get away with "BSDs and GNU seem OK with it" ;-) But one fix at a time. Reported-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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