[darcs-users] darcs patch: Fix GNU-ism (cp -a) in tests/repair-corrupt.sh.

Matthias Kilian kili at outback.escape.de
Tue Dec 23 20:18:02 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:50PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> > > The promised portability fix. I'll hope sed -i -e "..." is fine...
> > 
> > No. sed -i isn't portable.
> 
> Could you update http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/WritingPortableTests
> with anything you know off the top of your head (that might be
> pertinent to people trying to write these shell tests)?

Sure. I'll dig my archives to find what problems we had in the past,
and also try to add some new stuff.

Ciao,
	Kili


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