Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx

You have three recent instances where people have bumped into this with sed.  (And yes on reporting it to the packaging project.)  It seems to me leaving a breadcrumb so that folks can figure out what's going on without having to bother the list would be a win for everyone.  And yes, if any and all uses of POSIX tools started showing up with some frequency then I think the same breadcrumb win/win logic would apply.

  Enjoy,
  -ljr
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Lanny Ripple
lanny@spotinfluence.com


On May 31, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Lanny Ripple [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Perhaps the error message in git-am could be modified to indicate
sed is a suspect?.  E.g.,

lanny(master);<work/IdeaProjects/Piper> git rebase master rl-clean292
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
/sw/lib/git-core/git-am: line 692: Leblond: command not found
Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.  (Used /sw/bin/sed found on PATH).
                                             ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^
lanny((ae6c220...)|REBASE);<work/IdeaProjects/Piper> 

Hrm, that does not sound an attractive way going forward.

Do we have to suspect any and all uses of POSIX tools, just in case
somebody installs a broken implementation from random places?  Is
sed the only thing that is possibly broken?

By the way, have you filed a bug report to whoever supplied your /sw/bin/sed?