From: Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:05:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-rebase fails when a commit message contains a diff
Message-ID: <20071109090509.GA20121@ins.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To: <473420FE.7010807@viscovery.net>

* Johannes Sixt wrote on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:57:34AM CET:
> Benoit Sigoure schrieb:
>> Off topic question: why do you guys always do this instead of doing, say, 
>> this:
>>
>> INTERACTIVE=false
[...]
>> if $INTERACTIVE; then
>>   git_editor "$TODO" || die ...
>> fi
>
> Because in some shells 'false' is not a built-in.
[...]
>         INTERACTIVE="! :"       # false

Which shells do not have 'false' but do support '!' as process exit
status negation?  For them, is it important to save another fork?
Solaris sh has neither (it will error on the '!'), but it's ruled out
for git anyway.  

Cheers,
Ralf