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Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 4, 2020, 16:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20200504163325.GA18103@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20200504162844.GE86805@Carlos-MBP>
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:28:44AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
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> 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 ;)

Oh, you're right. I forgot they're doing an extra layer these days. It will officially become obsolete in less than 2 months. :)

-Peff
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  3. 1/2 ref-filter: apply --ignore-case to all sorting keysJeff King, May 3, 2020
  4. Danh DoanMay 3, 2020
  5. Jeff KingMay 4, 2020
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2020
  7. CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"Jeff King, May 4, 2020
  8. Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelónMay 4, 2020
  9. Jeff KingMay 4, 2020
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2020
  11. Danh DoanMay 4, 2020
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2020
  13. Jeff KingMay 5, 2020
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2020
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2020
  16. Jeff KingMay 5, 2020
  17. Taylor BlauMay 5, 2020
  18. 2/2 ref-filter: apply fallback refname sort only after all user sortsJeff King, May 3, 2020
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2020
  20. Taylor BlauMay 5, 2020
  21. climeMay 3, 2020

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