Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:45:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... >> So in C locale where each byte is supposed to be a single character, >> that implementation of "sed" refuses to match a byte with high-bit >> set when given a pattern '.'? >> >> That is a surprising breakage, I would have to say. > > It should not be too surprising, since we discussed it a few months ago: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192218 Heh, no wonder I do not recall that one, as everything happened and conclusions reached while I was sleeping ;-) If it is not a bug in platform-sanctioned sed, but a buggy third-party build, then I wouldn't worry about it for this cycle, but pre-release freeze might be a good time to start sketching Thomas's --format="%'%an <%ae>%'" approach, perhaps? -- 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