Re: [PATCH 05/10] p5303: measure time to repack with keep

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 07:40:40PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh b/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
index 277d22ec4b..85b077b72b 100755
--- a/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
+++ b/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh

@@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ repack_into_n () {

this construct:

	... |
	sed -n '1~5p' |
	head -n "$1" |
        ...

which is a GNUism.  Peff often says that very small population
actually run our perf suite, and this seems to corroborate the
conjecture.

Oops. Looks like I was the one who introduced that. Nobody seems to have
complained, so I'm somewhat tempted to leave it. But it would not be too
hard to replace with perl, I think.

-Peff