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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-submodule has bash-ism?
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 20:16:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160601191621.GO1355@john.keeping.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601190759.GB12496@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 03:07:59PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:31:00PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> 
> > > >  reset_submodule_urls () {
> > > > -	local root
> > > > -	root=$(pwd) &&
> > > >  	(
> > > > +		root=$(pwd) &&
> > > >  		cd super-clone/submodule &&
> > > >  		git config remote.origin.url "$root/submodule"
> > > >  	) &&
> > > >  	(
> > > > +		root=$(pwd) &&
> > > >  		cd super-clone/submodule/sub-submodule &&
> > > >  		git config remote.origin.url "$root/submodule"
> > [...]
> > I wonder if it's relevant that the "local root" line isn't &&-chained?
> > Is it possible that on some shells we ignore an error but everything
> > still works?
> 
> I don't think so. We're inside a function, so we wouldn't affect any
> outer &&-chaining in the function (and there isn't any in the caller
> anyway). I think it's a reasonable custom not to bother &&-chaining
> "local" lines, as they come at the top of a function and can't fail.

Can't fail if the shell supports "local", but if we're in a shell that
doesn't support it, then the lack of "&&" may allow us to just carry on.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-01 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-31 23:08 [BUG] git-submodule has bash-ism? Junio C Hamano
2016-05-31 23:16 ` Stefan Beller
2016-06-01  0:27 ` [PATCH] submodule: remove bashism from shell script Stefan Beller
2016-06-01 16:13 ` [BUG] git-submodule has bash-ism? Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 16:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 16:37     ` Jeff King
2016-06-01 18:31       ` John Keeping
2016-06-01 19:07         ` Jeff King
2016-06-01 19:16           ` John Keeping [this message]
2016-06-01 19:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 20:28               ` John Keeping
2016-06-01 20:32                 ` Jeff King
2016-06-01 20:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 20:56                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 20:59                     ` Eric Sunshine
2016-06-01 21:08                     ` Jeff King
2016-06-01 20:59                   ` Stefan Beller

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