From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rebase: learn to rebase root commit Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:49:05 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzli9b9y6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200812301323.30550.trast@student.ethz.ch> <7b2902d36a4790670f20f786d4ea2e26052a6e71.1230639970.git.trast@student.ethz.ch> <7v4p0iivwh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200901022320.14055.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 02 23:50:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIsqg-0005nT-Gi for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:50:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757183AbZABWtN (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:49:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757056AbZABWtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:49:12 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:54977 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751995AbZABWtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:49:12 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E76C1BA05; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:49:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2682D1BA04; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:49:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200901022320.14055.trast@student.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:20:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 91B9F8A2-D91F-11DD-9701-EB51113D384A-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Rast writes: > I'm still not sure what ${1+"$@"} was about by the way. It is one of the many old-timer's portability idioms that let us work around bugs in some ancient shell implementations. ${1+"$@"} should be equivalent to "$@" in modern Bourne shell variants that are POSIX compliant.