From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 16:28:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"
Message-ID: <20200504162844.GE86805@Carlos-MBP>
In-Reply-To: <20200504160709.GB12842@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:07:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> -- >8 --
> Subject: CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"
> 
> The advice to use "$x" rather than "x" in arithmetric expansion was
> working around a dash bug fixed in 0.5.4. Even Debian oldstable has
> 0.5.7 these days.

that would be oldoldstable, oldstable is actually in 0.5.8 ;)

> Helped-by: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Reviewed-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>

Carlo