Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> The awk script restricts itself to POSIX, and I did test it on Linux, >>> Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, so it seems pretty portable. >> >> I was worried more about some people only having gawk while others >> with mawk and yet others nawk, etc., without having one of them >> under the canonical name "awk". It's nothing what >> >> $ make AWK=mawk >> >> or its config.mak equivalent cannot fix, but still bothers me a bit. > > In that case, perhaps we should go with the Perl version, which, given > that more people (these days) are familiar with Perl than awk, is less > likely to be a maintenance burden. As long as we all can agree that the long-term direction we want to go in is to remove dependency on awk, that's fine by me. That means a small awk scriptlets in t/ and elsewhere need to be rethought, though. Thanks. -- 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