Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> Michael Loeffler wrote: >> >>> Am Montag, den 04.12.2006, 20:48 +0100 schrieb Jakub Narebski: >>> ... >>>> I'm not sure if regexp support is truly better than the usual path globbing, >>>> as in fnmatch / glob. >>> >>> The current code does not do a real glob, this was the reason for me to >>> think about regex support, I thought it is easy to use sed for this. Now >>> I know it better. >> >> We could use perl for that, but embedded perl is a bit horrible. > > Not to talk about portable, and as we saw, dependent on the C compiler > (you would have to make git compile with the same C compiler that perl was > compiled with). > > So, please look into other options first. No, not embedded in C, but embedded in shell script. Use perl -ip instead of sed. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: 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