tests: use grep -E instead of obsolescent egrep Testing on Fedora 38 failed with: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E The warning comes from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=a9515624709865d480e3142fd959bccd1c9372d1 . For further anecdotal evidence of the change, see https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Grep-3.8-Stop-egrep-fgrep . This reverses the code check that goes back to e7d3b509af8b. grep -E is POSIX, but there is a risk that it doesn't work the same on all platforms - especially older Unix versions. It should however always be possible to put a GNU grep in $PATH before running the tests.

  $ hg init

  $ echo 123 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "first" a

  $ mkdir sub
  $ echo 321 > sub/b
  $ hg add sub/b
  $ hg commit -m "second" sub/b

  $ cat sub/b
  321

  $ hg co 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cat sub/b 2>/dev/null || echo "sub/b not present"
  sub/b not present

  $ test -d sub || echo "sub not present"
  sub not present