Carl Smedstad <carl.smedstad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Not commenting on the patch itself, but ... >> >> > find . | >> > git check-ignore --verbose --non-matching | >> > grep $'^::\t' | >> > sed -e 's/.*\t//' >> >> ... feeding grep output to sed caught my eyes. Isn't that equivalent to >> >> git ... | >> sed -n '/^::\t/s/.*\t//p' > > That is indeed equivalent. TIL about regular-expression addresses in > sed, thanks! I however suspect that these "\t"'s should be spelled out as an actual TAB in the final production version for portability. Thanks.