From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage.
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 22:36:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpshxbde9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060529052828.GB24077@localdomain> (Eric Wong's message of "Sun, 28 May 2006 22:28:28 -0700")
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:06:17PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
>> > None of the variables seem to conflict, so local was unnecessary.
>>
>> BTW, dash supports (and has always supported) local which is a quite
>> useful feature.
>
> Cool. Hmm... pdksh seems to support it here (Debian sid). I'm pretty
> sure local is not part of the POSIX spec, though; and I have seen
> /bin/sh that don't support it.
Concurred. There are things Herbert said are clearly dash bugs,
but this one is outside POSIX, so lets leave your changes to the
test for it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-29 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-26 2:06 [PATCH 0/4] fix tests so they run without needing bash Eric Wong
2006-05-26 2:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] t3300-funny-names: shell portability fixes Eric Wong
2006-05-26 2:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] tests: Remove heredoc usage inside quotes Eric Wong
2006-05-26 2:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage Eric Wong
2006-05-26 2:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] t6000lib: workaround a possible dash bug Eric Wong
2006-05-26 12:33 ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-21 13:28 ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-21 20:45 ` Eric Wong
2007-09-26 8:41 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-26 12:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage Herbert Xu
2006-05-29 5:28 ` Eric Wong
2006-05-29 5:36 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-05-29 7:31 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] tests: Remove heredoc usage inside quotes Herbert Xu
2006-05-29 5:30 ` Eric Wong
2006-05-26 3:01 ` [PATCH 0/4] fix tests so they run without needing bash Junio C Hamano
2006-05-29 5:39 ` Eric Wong
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