On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:28 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 03:19:31PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > It's not just exotic platforms on which this can be a problem. BSD > > lineage `sed`, such as stock `sed` on macOS, doesn't understand this > > notation. > > OK, then I'm doubly surprised nobody has noticed and complained about > this. :) Aside from there possibly being relatively few regular Git developers using macOS, it could also be because it's difficult to run the perf tests on macOS in the first place due to the GNU prerequisites. For instance, the perf tests have an unconditional dependency on GNU `time` which is not installed on macOS by default, and it's not always easy to figure out how to obtain it.
