On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 15:09, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
>
> Among other differences relative to GNU sed, BSD sed always ends its
> output with a trailing newline, even if the input did not have such a
> trailing newline.
>
> Surprisingly, this makes three httpd-based tests fail on macOS: t5616,
> t5702 and t5703. ("Surprisingly" because those tests have been around
> for some time, but apparently nobody runs them on macOS with a working
> Apache2 setup.)
Hmm, this is interesting - all tests (that are executed) are passing
on FreeBSD, in CI.
I tried on FreeBSD and do not see a trailing newline added; I'm not
sure how sed behaves on other BSDs. However, you probably want to
refer to macOS sed rather than BSD sed in the commit.
