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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Portability of git shell scripts?
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 22:53:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160507025320.GA31460@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALR6jEiWQUO0WsOVah2O+9-j2Qx7juYjP7cb1v+P=Ey0oqQszg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:57:45PM +0200, Armin Kunaschik wrote:

> > Right. Any modern-ish Bourne shell will do, so moving to bash is one
> > way to fix it.
> 
> My last compile of git 2.2.2 did far better than the current 2.8.2. So
> it looks like there were more recent changes that broke portability.

If you have a working version and a non-working version, the results of
"git bisect" would be very helpful to find the change (or the output of
the test run with "-v -i" to show what's going on in the failing test).

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-07  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-04 18:17 Portability of git shell scripts? Armin Kunaschik
2016-05-04 18:35 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2016-05-04 21:20 ` Jeff King
2016-05-06 16:57   ` Armin Kunaschik
2016-05-07  2:53     ` Jeff King [this message]

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