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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Junio Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Bisect: add special treatment for bangs passed to "bisect run".
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 11:44:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501094403.GA7613@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501113112.c4b32b55.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Hallo Christian,

> Something like:
> 
>  $ git bisect run ! grep string my_file
> 
> does not work right now, probably because '!' is a shell keyword.

I didn't check you patch in deep, but you should consider that the
special meaning of "!" isn't implemented in the original Bourne
Shell[1].

IIRC this or something similar was brought up some time ago and the
result was, that your script has to do the negation if needed.

Best regards
Uwe

[1] login@~ > uname -a
    SunOS login 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc

    login@~ > /bin/sh -c "! true"
    /bin/sh: !: not found

-- 
Uwe Kleine-König

cal 9 1752 | grep 10

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01  9:31 [RFC/PATCH] Bisect: add special treatment for bangs passed to "bisect run" Christian Couder
2007-05-01  9:44 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
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2007-05-01 12:17 Christian Couder

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