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Re: [PATCH] sh-setup: work around "unset IFS" bug in some shells

From
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2012, 22:37 UTC
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<50C26FA9.6060007@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To
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I like your patch's subject line better than mine.
		M.
On 12-12-07 05:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> With an unset IFS, field splitting is supposed to act as if IFS is
> set to the usual SP HT LF, but Marc Branchaud reports that the shell
> on FreeBSD 7.2 gets this wrong.
> 
> It is easy to set it to the default value manually, so let's do so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  git-sh-setup.sh | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
> index ee0e0bc..107c144 100644
> --- a/git-sh-setup.sh
> +++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
> @@ -12,8 +12,11 @@
>  # But we protect ourselves from such a user mistake nevertheless.
>  unset CDPATH
>  
> -# Similarly for IFS
> -unset IFS
> +# Similarly for IFS, but some shells (e.g. FreeBSD 7.2) are buggy and
> +# do not equate an unset IFS with IFS with the default, so here is
> +# an explicit SP HT LF.
> +IFS=' 	
> +'
>  
>  git_broken_path_fix () {
>  	case ":$PATH:" in
> 
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Message 10 of 19 in “Weird problem with git-submodule.sh”
  1. Marc BranchaudDec 7, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  3. Marc BranchaudDec 7, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  5. Marc BranchaudDec 7, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  7. Marc BranchaudDec 7, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  9. sh-setup: work around "unset IFS" bug in some shellsJunio C Hamano, Dec 7, 2012
  10. Marc BranchaudDec 7, 2012
  11. Andreas SchwabDec 7, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  13. Andreas SchwabDec 8, 2012
  14. Stefano LattariniDec 9, 2012
  15. Phil HordDec 12, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2012
  17. Phil HordDec 12, 2012
  18. Marc BranchaudDec 7, 2012
  19. sh-setup: Explicitly set IFS to its default, instead of unsetting it.marcnarc@xiplink.com, Dec 7, 2012

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