Re: [PATCH 01/10] t: add tool to translate hash-related values

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:57:04AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> > > Unless I'm wrong, we don't use the "local" keyword ?
> > 
> > We've got a test balloon out; see 01d3a526ad (t0000: check whether the
> > shell supports the "local" keyword, 2017-10-26). I think it's reasonable
> > to consider starting its use.
> 
> I used it because it's already in use earlier in the file in some of the
> mingw_* functions.  Perhaps we happen to know that our mingw systems
> will always have a suitable /bin/sh, but I suppose some less capable
> shells would still have choked on it by now.

We do know in that case; it's always bash under mingw.

That said...

> I can remove it if necessary, but it didn't seem necessary.

I feel OK about starting to use it, with the knowledge that we may get a
late-comer who hasn't even tested v2.16.0 yet and says "no, wait! My
shell doesn't support local!". And then we'd have to deal with it then.
But I suspect that won't happen, or it will turn out that the shell in
question is unusable for some other reason anyway.

-Peff