From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 02:53:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Portability of git shell scripts?
Message-ID: <20160507025320.GA31460@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALR6jEiWQUO0WsOVah2O+9-j2Qx7juYjP7cb1v+P=Ey0oqQszg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:57:45PM +0200, Armin Kunaschik wrote:

> > Right. Any modern-ish Bourne shell will do, so moving to bash is one
> > way to fix it.
> 
> My last compile of git 2.2.2 did far better than the current 2.8.2. So
> it looks like there were more recent changes that broke portability.

If you have a working version and a non-working version, the results of
"git bisect" would be very helpful to find the change (or the output of
the test run with "-v -i" to show what's going on in the failing test).

-Peff