Re: [RFC] Add basic syntax check on shell scripts

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
>
>> The test suite needs to be run on different platforms.
>> As it may be difficult for contributors to catch syntax
>> which work on GNU/linux, but is unportable, make a quick check
>> for the most common problems.
>> "sed -i", "echo -n" or "array in shell scripts"
>> This list is not complete, and may need to be extended
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
>> ---
>> We add 1 second test execution time
>> Is this a useful idea at all?
>
> Please do not name it after t/t[0-9]*.sh pattern, which are about
> testing git.
>
> This (once it gets cleaned up to reduce false positives) belongs to
> "cd t && make test-lint".

Or a project commit hook? We can see how it goes and whether we can
improve anything for projects that rely on hooks.
-- 
Duy