There seems to be at least one implementation of Perl which requires the user to specify an extension for backup files. Reported by Alex Riesen. Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- What system and what version of ActivePerl do you use? I have just tried ActivePerl 5.8.8 on Solaris and it does _not_ force the user to make backups. t/annotate-tests.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/annotate-tests.sh b/t/annotate-tests.sh index c04f0e1..03ed081 100644 --- a/t/annotate-tests.sh +++ b/t/annotate-tests.sh @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ test_expect_success \ test_expect_success \ 'some edit' \ - 'perl -pi -e "s/^1A.*\n$//; s/^3A/99/" file && + 'perl -p -i.orig -e "s/^1A.*\n$//; s/^3A/99/" file && GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="D" git commit -a -m "edit"' test_expect_success \ -- 1.4.0 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html