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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	"Felipe Contreras" <felipec@infradead.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Lee Marlow" <lee.marlow@gmail.com>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] completion: be nicer with zsh
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:09:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vliopatxg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120130182547.GA22549@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:25:47 -0600")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> The commands might fail, that's why '2> /dev/null' was used before,
>> and ':' is used right now.
>
> Wait, what?
>
> : is a no-op command.  It does not redirect stderr automatically or
> do any other magical thing.

s/no-op/true/ ;-)

> ..., so I suppose consistency is the only reason to
> prefer one over another.

Yes. And the script may probably use [[ very heavily.

Early return after || i.e.

	A || return
        B

simply looks ugly and misleading, especially when the remainder B is just
a single line.  But I stopped caring about the styles in this particular
script long time ago, so...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 17:23 [PATCH 0/4] completion: trivial cleanups Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 17:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] completion: remove unused code Felipe Contreras
     [not found] ` <1327944197-6379-2-git-send-email-felipec@infradead.org>
2012-01-30 17:34   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] completion: simplify __git_remotes Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 18:27     ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found] ` <1327944197-6379-4-git-send-email-felipec@infradead.org>
2012-01-30 17:50   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] completion: cleanup __gitcomp* Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 19:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 21:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-31  0:15     ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-01-31  0:25       ` Jonathan Nieder
     [not found] ` <1327944197-6379-5-git-send-email-felipec@infradead.org>
2012-01-30 17:53   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] completion: be nicer with zsh Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 18:10     ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 18:25       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 18:56         ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 19:03           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 19:09         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-01-30 19:22           ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 19:28             ` Jonathan Nieder

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