Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Josh Steadmon <steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> This still breaks on MacOS, as `sed` doesn't understand the '-E' option >> there. > > Can you try to see t6030 also breaks due to lack of ERE in the same > environment? It seems it uses "sed -E", so it should fail to find > what it is trying to. > > Thanks. The reason why I am curious is because https://ss64.com/mac/sed.html claims that -E works. Earlier I wrote somewhere whatever problem it is it would be shared with BSD implementation of sed. But apparently BSD's sed also works with the -E option. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sed(1) So, I dunno. Perhaps it is not -E but some specific construct used in the pattern?
