Re: [PATCH 2/2] ls-files: add --sparse option

On 12/8/2021 1:36 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:23 AM Derrick Stolee [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 12/8/2021 12:04 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:

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This actually looks quite nice, though the magic '16' is kind of
annoying.  Could we get rid of that -- perhaps using something to rip
out the diff header, or using comm instead?

What I really want is "remove the first two lines of this file"

Is `tail -n +3` portable?  Looks like we have five uses of tail -n +N
in the testsuite, so it should be okay to use.

Ah, that's the magic incantation. Sounds good.

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but perhaps "tail -n $(wc -l expect)" would suffice to avoid a
magic number?

That works too.

If the "-n +X" syntax works, then I'll opt for that.

Thanks!