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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 11:01:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dkgxk9p.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8ds8k6r.fsf_-_@gitster.g>


On Mon, May 03 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 01d3a526 (t0000: check whether the shell supports the "local"
> keyword, 2017-10-26) raised a test balloon to see if those who build
> and test Git use a platform with a shell that lacks support for the
> "local" keyword.  After two years, 7f0b5908 (t0000: reword comments
> for "local" test, 2019-08-08) documented that "local" keyword, even
> though is outside POSIX, is allowed in our test scripts.
>
> Let's write it in the CodingGuidelines, too.  It might be tempting
> to allow it in scripted Porcelains (we have avoided getting them
> contaminiated by "local" so far), but they are on their way out and
> getting rewritten in C.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> index 45465bc0c9..ea70676a30 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> @@ -175,6 +175,11 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
>  
>     does not have such a problem.
>  
> + - Even though "local" is not part of POSIX, we make heavy use of it
> +   in our test suite.  We do not use it in scripted Porcelains, and
> +   hopefully nobody starts using "local" before they are reimplemented
> +   in C ;-)
> +

Is there any portability reason to avoid "local" in the porcelains? I
don't have any plans for using it, but I don't see why we'd explicitly
forbid it.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-03  4:10 [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03  4:21 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-03  5:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03  5:23     ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03  9:01       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2021-05-04  3:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 12:27           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 12:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 15:09               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 20:22                 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-04 23:17                 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-04 23:55                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05  0:08                   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05  1:58                     ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-05  3:59                       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 14:16                         ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 17:18                           ` Felipe Contreras

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