Re: [PATCH] bash: offer only paths after '--'

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 8, 2008, 23:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20080708235538.GB17263@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080708235153.GD8224@neumann>

SZEDER GGGbor <szeder@ira.uka.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:18:37PM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> > > > +		c=$((++c))
> > > 
> > > This assignment is somewhat curious, although it should work as expected
> > > either way ;-)
>
> Well, according to
> 
>   git blame contrib/completion/git-completion.bash  |grep '++'
> 
> you started this convention back in 2006, I just copied and modified
> your code (;

Yea, I don't doubt it was me that did this.

> Maybe an old C++ "heritage"?  In C++ it matters for class types (e.g.
> iterators), because the postfix operator might be slower than the
> prefix.

Unlikely, but maybe. I'm not really a C++ programmer. I tend to avoid C++ when/if I am given the chance to do so.

-- 
Shawn.