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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .git/hooks/commit-msg
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:54:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fxy5rle.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 548946F0.4050105@cs.ucla.edu

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:25:36 -0800 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: 

PE> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996, Copyright (C) Michael D. Brennan

PE> Yeowch.  Talk about software archaeology.  Please install 'gawk'; it
PE> may be slower than mawk, but it's much better about compatibility,
PE> supports UTF-8, etc., etc.

This is the default on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.  You have to deal with these
issues if you want to write a generic script.

PE> To help forestall future problems like this I installed the attached
PE> patch into the emacs-24 branch; it should get merged into the master
PE> branch eventually.

Is Perl so bad?  People are much less likely to have a 1996 version of it.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-07 16:19 .git/hooks/commit-msg Jan D.
2014-12-07 16:36 ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-08  1:14 ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 11:53   ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Jan D.
2014-12-10 15:45   ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-11  7:25     ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Paul Eggert
2014-12-11 11:54       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-12-12 18:03         ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Paul Eggert
2014-12-13  0:50           ` .git/hooks/commit-msg Ted Zlatanov

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