Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
I intentionally did not anchor it because the tests themselves did not,
and I worried that that there was some subtle portability issue there
(especially because of the magic "let there be two colons" part of the
pattern).
OK, fair enough (the "two colons" one I think was for Solaris).
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
I intentionally did not anchor it because the tests themselves did not,
and I worried that that there was some subtle portability issue there
(especially because of the magic "let there be two colons" part of the
pattern).
OK, fair enough (the "two colons" one I think was for Solaris).
It was indeed for Solaris. I don't recall any other differences in
the output between Solaris and Linux, so you could add the anchor and
see if anyone makes noise. I no longer have access to Solaris to
test.
-Brandon