Re: [PATCH 1/1] devel/release-checks.sh: added check that 1st NEWS header is tidy

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] devel/release-checks.sh: added check that 1st NEWS header is tidy

Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:44:28 -0400

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> +echo -n "Checking that NEWS header is tidy... "
> +if [ "`exec sed 's/./=/g; 1q' NEWS`" = "`exec sed '1d; 2q' NEWS`" ]

This patch seems OK to me, although the execs might be a bit overkill
for a script that is run once ever few months.

d

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