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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-rebase fails when a commit message contains a diff
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:05:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071109090509.GA20121@ins.uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473420FE.7010807@viscovery.net>

* Johannes Sixt wrote on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:57:34AM CET:
> Benoit Sigoure schrieb:
>> Off topic question: why do you guys always do this instead of doing, say, 
>> this:
>>
>> INTERACTIVE=false
[...]
>> if $INTERACTIVE; then
>>   git_editor "$TODO" || die ...
>> fi
>
> Because in some shells 'false' is not a built-in.
[...]
>         INTERACTIVE="! :"       # false

Which shells do not have 'false' but do support '!' as process exit
status negation?  For them, is it important to save another fork?
Solaris sh has neither (it will error on the '!'), but it's ruled out
for git anyway.  

Cheers,
Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-09  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09  1:12 [BUG] git-rebase fails when a commit message contains a diff Jonas Fonseca
2007-11-09  1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09  1:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09  2:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09  2:28       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-09  2:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 14:19           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-11 22:31           ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-11-09  7:57         ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-09  8:57           ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-09  9:05             ` Ralf Wildenhues [this message]
2007-11-09  9:07             ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-09 13:20           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-09 10:29         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-09  7:03     ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-09 14:18       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-09 14:29         ` Steffen Prohaska

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