From: Alejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:43:57 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: git-am: head -1 is obsolete and doesn't work on some new systems
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.6~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d9b26562e12fabd60bb4174b7e6b10f4f4a0ec8;p=git.git

git-am: head -1 is obsolete and doesn't work on some new systems

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>
---

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index b48096ec2..2c517ede5 100755
--- 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