From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940B71F5AE for ; Wed, 5 May 2021 14:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232740AbhEEORt (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2021 10:17:49 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:45412 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232570AbhEEORt (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2021 10:17:49 -0400 Received: (qmail 18559 invoked by uid 109); 5 May 2021 14:16:52 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 May 2021 14:16:52 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 10123 invoked by uid 111); 5 May 2021 14:16:51 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 05 May 2021 10:16:51 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 10:16:51 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Felipe Contreras Cc: "brian m. carlson" , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , Junio C Hamano , Git List , Eric Sunshine Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts Message-ID: References: <877dkgxk9p.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <87czu6wuf3.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <87a6pawmyu.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <6091e1f12ddf9_cc8208b9@natae.notmuch> <6092180651fdc_105ac2088a@natae.notmuch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6092180651fdc_105ac2088a@natae.notmuch> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:59:02PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > I believe there's a bash compatibility mode that enables this, but I > > don't see support for it in the version Debian ships[0], which doesn't > > enable that mode: > > > > ksh -c 'function f { local x="foo"; echo $x; }; f' > > ksh: f[1]: local: not found [No such file or directory] > > I tried to build ksh myself to make sure, and apparently there's a mess > of different versions of it. I manually applied some patches and tried > three times before giving up. > > It's clear the Debian version and the Arch Linux version are completely > different. > > > Regardless of the specifics, I think we can both agree that it doesn't > > work in sh-style functions, so for Git's purposes, AT&T ksh does not > > meet our needs in terms of support for local. > > Indeed. But it also probably doesn't meet many other needs. A quick > check shows 54 failed tests just on t0000-basic.sh. I don't think it's > something we should even consider. Yeah, we have visited this off and on over the years (links below). There are some modernized ksh variants that work OK (like mksh), but I think we've declared ksh93 as not worth it. -Peff [0] https://lore.kernel.org/git/31108626.20150508231514@gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqinxt3kwq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/