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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5528: do not fail with FreeBSD shell
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 02:04:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150309060403.GA27128@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211E8F7E-5588-45B1-ACF6-BB7DFB798ABB@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 10:19:20PM -0700, Kyle J. McKay wrote:

> >I am not convinced this isn't a violation of POSIX (which specifies that
> >field splitting is done on the results of parameter expansions outside
> >of double-quotes). But whether it is or not, we have to live with it.
> 
> That's not the only problem the shell has, t5560 had an issue, rebase had
> issues.  They've have been worked around.  It probably also affects related
> BSDs' shells as well (at least older versions that didn't change the shell).

Yeah, I hope that didn't come across as "bleh, this shell is not worth
supporting". It was "whether I think it is a bug or not, it is a real
problem and we must work around it".

> >For my own curiosity, what does:
> [...]

Thanks. Weird behavior, certainly, but I think the solution in your
patch is the right thing to do.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-08 15:37 [PATCH] t5528: do not fail with FreeBSD shell Kyle J. McKay
2015-03-08 17:56 ` Jeff King
2015-03-09  5:19   ` Kyle J. McKay
2015-03-09  6:04     ` Jeff King [this message]

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