On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 19:10 EST,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Magnus Bäck <ba...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > While "constant traffic" probably overstates the issue, these are
> > not theoretical problems. I recall at least three cases in the last
> > year or so where Git has seen breakage with Solaris or Mac OS X
> > because of sed or tr incompatibilities, and I don't even read this
> > list that thoroughly.
>
> Most of the *constant* traffic is about *theoretical*
> incompatibilities, how much of that are real incompatibilities, it's
> not known. _Some_ of the traffic is about real incompatibilities,
> sure, but you could count only three cases *in a year*. It's not a
> huge amount. And then, how man this year?
>
> Also, I would like references to those incompatibilities.
I don't remember the details of the Mac OS X problem, but just searching
the archives for "xpg4" revealed the following Solaris problems since
April:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/195010
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/195966
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/207944
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