On 25.10.12 10:41, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:04:11AM -0400, Geert Bosch wrote: > >> On Oct 24, 2012, at 23:54, Brian Gernhardt <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> It works if I change \s to [[:space:]], but I don't know how portable that is. >> >> As \s is shorthand for the POSIX character class [:space:], I'd say the latter >> should be more portable: anything accepting the shorthand should also accept >> the full character class. If not, you probably only care about horizontal tab >> and space, for which you could just use a simple regular expression. Just a >> literal space and tab character between square brackets is probably going to be >> most portable, though not most readable. > > I agree that the POSIX character class would be more portable than "\s", > but we do not have any existing uses of them, and I would worry a little > about older systems like Solaris. If we can simply use a literal space > and tab, that seems like the safest. > > Brian, can you work up a patch? > > -Peff Would this be portable: (It works on my Mac OS X box after installing cvs) But I don't have solaris diff --git a/t/t9401-git-cvsserver-crlf.sh b/t/t9401-git-cvsserver-crlf.sh index cdb8360..f2ec9d2 100755 --- a/t/t9401-git-cvsserver-crlf.sh +++ b/t/t9401-git-cvsserver-crlf.sh @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ check_status_options() { echo "Error from cvs status: $1 $2" >> "${WORKDIR}/marked.log" return 1; fi - got="$(sed -n -e 's/^\s*Sticky Options:\s*//p' "${WORKDIR}/status.out")" + got="$(tr '\t' ' ' < "${WORKDIR}/status.out" | sed -n -e 's/^ *Sticky Options: *//p')" expect="$3" if [ x"$expect" = x"" ] ; then expect="(none)" -- 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