On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 2:32 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jul 29 2022, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

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+     sed "s/[0-9a-f]\{10,10\}/COMMIT_ID/" |

{10,10} in a regex is just {10}, no?

I'm more than a little surprised that this regex repeat-count notation
works on macOS `sed` which, in the BSD tradition, is rather feature
poor. Testing it, though, I find that it does work, even on my
relatively old version of macOS. However, I'd still worry about other
BSD `sed`s in the wild.

Instead of using the repeat-count notation, we could model this after
the way `OID_REGEX` is defined in t/test-lib.sh which, through
automation, defines a highly portable regex. Alternatively, just use
"$_x05$_x05", also from test-lib.sh, to define a regex matcher for ten
hex digits.