From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F8E71C.1070409@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>
>> As a completely irrelevant side note: the autoconf documentation
>> mentions that "false" is more portable than "true" since calling it
>> returns a non-zero exit status even when it is not installed or
>> built-in.
>>
>
> Ah, I like that ;-) It is obvious when you think about it, and
> it is so true but in a very twisted way...
>
>
You mean, it is not false but in a twisted way, don't you?
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-21 21:43 [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh Eygene Ryabinkin
2007-09-21 23:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-22 0:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 0:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-22 0:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-22 0:26 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 3:54 ` Eygene Ryabinkin
2007-09-22 4:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 6:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-22 7:34 ` Vineet Kumar
2007-09-22 11:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 6:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-22 21:37 ` Adam Flott
2007-09-22 8:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-23 8:31 ` Eygene Ryabinkin
2007-09-23 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-23 19:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 20:42 ` [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom David Kastrup
2007-09-23 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-24 6:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 14:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-25 6:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-25 6:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-25 10:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-25 10:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-09-24 6:05 ` Mike Hommey
2007-09-24 6:26 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 6:30 ` David Symonds
2007-09-24 7:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 8:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-24 8:04 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-24 10:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-24 11:21 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-24 11:35 ` Eygene Ryabinkin
2007-09-24 13:45 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-24 13:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 14:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-24 14:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 14:58 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-24 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-24 11:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 8:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 2:33 ` [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh Junio C Hamano
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