[PATCH] Fix author-scan.sh on BSD systems.

Subject: [PATCH] Fix author-scan.sh on BSD systems.

Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:22:43 -0800

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: Matt Armstrong

From: Matt Armstrong


BSD xargs does not have the -d option. Here we use tr to convert
newlines to NUL characters, then pass -0 to xargs (which BSD does
support).

I looked at passing -z to 'git ls-files', but I did not find a BSD
grep option to turn on NUL deliminted line processing.
---
 devel/author-scan.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/devel/author-scan.sh b/devel/author-scan.sh
index 2d9c4af8..23854f39 100644
--- a/devel/author-scan.sh
+++ b/devel/author-scan.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AUTHOR_EXCLUDE='uncrustify'
 # based on the FSF guideline, for want of a better idea.
 THRESHOLD=15
 
-git ls-files | grep -v -e "$FILE_EXCLUDE" | xargs -n 1 -d \\n \
+git ls-files | grep -v -e "$FILE_EXCLUDE" | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n 1 \
                                                   git blame -w --line-porcelain -- | \
     sed -n "/$AUTHOR_EXCLUDE/d; s/^[aA][uU][tT][hH][Oo][rR] //p" | \
     sort -fd | uniq -ic | awk "\$1 >= $THRESHOLD" | sort -nr
-- 
2.30.0
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