From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:59:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] completion: enhance "current branch" display
Message-ID: <200905101259.07175.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdo91glm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  				b="$(cut -c1-7 "$g/HEAD" 2>/dev/null)..." ||

While you are here, you could turn this line into

		{ b=$(< "$g/HEAD") && b=${b:0:7}...; } 2>/dev/null ||

to save a process. $(< foo) is a bash feature and does the same as $(cat foo), 
but faster.

-- Hannes