Re: [PATCH] Avoid bug in Solaris xpg4/sed as used in submodule

Ben Walton [off-list ref] writes:

I guess widely wasn't a good choice...My search wasn't narrow enough
earlier.  Was I correct in my original thinking that the range
notation isn't to be used then?

So far we have tried to stay within a narrow subset of BRE (see
Documentation/CodingGuidelines) in fear of upsetting exotic and/or ancient
systems. I do not mind reviewing and revising the guidelines every couple
of years, but for this particular case, I do not think [^/][^/]* is too
bad.  FWIW, it bothers me a lot more that expression does not anchor
matches against path elements with explicit '/' than the issue your patch
addresses, i.e.

	sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*/|../|g'