git-am: head -1 is obsolete and doesn't work on some new systems
authorAlejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:43:57 +0000 (13:43 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:40:09 +0000 (16:40 -0700)
head -<n> was deprecated by POSIX, and as modern versions of coreutils
package don't support it at least one exports _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
it's fails on some systems.

head -n<n> is portable, but sed <n>q is even more.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am.sh

index b48096ec2037e3f14d4bdf89a0afe4623aff090e..2c517ede590c5c3274b03d1c980f9a847cc7d643 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ do
        else
            action=yes
        fi
-       FIRSTLINE=$(head -1 "$dotest/final-commit")
+       FIRSTLINE=$(sed 1q "$dotest/final-commit")
 
        if test $action = skip
        then