From: "Spencer E. Olson" <olsonse@umich.edu>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule: no [--merge|--rebase] when newly cloned
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:48:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102171748.15516.olsonse@umich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1102171929200.14950@debian>
We are not actually using the yes utility (think y\ny\ny\ny\ny\ny\n...)
As far as I understand, in this particular use, "yes" and "no" are just
comments. We could also write
: I like banannas ;;
and
! : I do not like anchovies ;;
On Thursday 17 February 2011 17:34, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > Am 2/16/2011 20:51, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> > > Here is how to write the above more concisely, efficiently and
> > > portably.
> > >
> > > case "$2;" in
> > > *";$1;"*)
> > > echo yes ;;
> > > *)
> > > echo no ;;
> > > esac
> > >
> > > The trailing ';' takes care of the case where cloned_modules has only
> > > one element, in which case you have ";name" in "$2". No need for a
> > > loop.
> >
> > And while you are here, you could make this:
> >
> > list_contains()
> > {
> > case "$2;" in
> > *";$1;"*)
> >
> > : yes ;;
> >
> > *)
> > ! : no ;;
> > esac
> > }
> >
> > and test for the exit code of this function rather than its output at the
> > call site.
>
> According to Brandon Casey: "Some platforms (IRIX 6.5, Solaris 7) do
> not provide the 'yes' utility." See 8648732 (t/test-lib.sh: provide a
> shell implementation of the 'yes' utility, 2009-08-28).
>
>
> /Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 12:46 [PATCH] submodule: no [--merge|--rebase] when newly cloned Spencer E. Olson
2011-02-16 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-16 20:10 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-16 21:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-17 0:21 ` Spencer E. Olson
2011-02-17 7:10 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-02-18 0:34 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-02-18 0:48 ` Spencer E. Olson [this message]
2011-02-18 0:59 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
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