From: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:44:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Bisect: add special treatment for bangs passed to "bisect run".
Message-ID: <20070501094403.GA7613@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070501113112.c4b32b55.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Hallo Christian,

> Something like:
> 
>  $ git bisect run ! grep string my_file
> 
> does not work right now, probably because '!' is a shell keyword.

I didn't check you patch in deep, but you should consider that the
special meaning of "!" isn't implemented in the original Bourne
Shell[1].

IIRC this or something similar was brought up some time ago and the
result was, that your script has to do the negation if needed.

Best regards
Uwe

[1] login@~ > uname -a
    SunOS login 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc

    login@~ > /bin/sh -c "! true"
    /bin/sh: !: not found

-- 
Uwe Kleine-König

cal 9 1752 | grep 10