Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] help: respect new common command grouping

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

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The awk script restricts itself to POSIX, and I did test it on Linux,
Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, so it seems pretty portable.

I was worried more about some people only having gawk while others
with mawk and yet others nawk, etc., without having one of them
under the canonical name "awk".  It's nothing what

    $ make AWK=mawk

or its config.mak equivalent cannot fix, but still bothers me a bit.

In that case, perhaps we should go with the Perl version, which, given
that more people (these days) are familiar with Perl than awk, is less
likely to be a maintenance burden.