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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shawn O Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:39:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031183933.GA3577@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031183601.GB8464@artemis.corp>

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:36:01PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> Set up a Debian autobuilder with dash as a /bin/sh (apt-get install
> dash, dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash and say 'yes'). You'll see those kind
> of problems arise immediately.

I don't need to; my development box is Debian with dash as /bin/sh. :)

> Dash is a POSIX compatible shell, with almost no extension added (in
> particular its echo has no -n option) which helps to find those kind of
> issues.
> 
> It would help detecting git shell scripts that use bashism as well.

Agreed, and actually I found such a bashism (test ==) last week (though
of course it also broke on FreeBSD).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 22:12 [PATCH] t4030: Don't use echo -n Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-30 23:52 ` Ian Hilt
2008-10-31  5:02   ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-31  5:09     ` [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-31  8:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 15:38         ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-31  8:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31  9:36         ` [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo-n` " Steve Folly
2008-10-31 14:32       ` [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` " Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 18:24       ` Jeff King
2008-10-31 18:36         ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 18:39           ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-10-31 19:35             ` Francis Galiegue
2008-10-31 22:53               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-03 16:30         ` Mike Ralphson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-31 19:50 Francis Galiegue
2008-10-31 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 20:11 ` Ian Hilt
2008-10-31 20:30   ` Francis Galiegue

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