On 2019-08-08 at 09:37:33, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:56:14PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Subject: [PATCH] t0000: reword comments for "local" test
> 
> Commit 01d3a526ad (t0000: check whether the shell supports the "local"
> keyword, 2017-10-26) added a test to gather data on whether people run
> the test suite with shells that don't support "local".
> 
> After almost two years, nobody has complained, and several other uses
> have cropped up in test-lib-functions.sh. Let's declare it acceptable to
> use.

I'm also in favor of this patch. To my knowledge, the only FLOSS
POSIX-compliant shell that doesn't support "local" is AT&T ksh, so there
are a lot of alternatives that folks have (bash, dash, posh, zsh, mksh,
pdksh, busybox sh, etc.) in case they have a less capable shell.
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