From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:00:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7800: avoid arithmetic expansion notation
Message-ID: <7v4nzb1mjd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <837ad77348b459aa5f5f79e556dbeeeba41027e7.1318594392.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> ba959de (git-difftool: allow skipping file by typing 'n' at prompt, 2011-10-08)
> introduced shell code like
>
> $((foo; bar) | baz)
>
> which some shells (e.g. bash, dash) interpret as an unfinished arithmetic
> evaluation $(( expr )).

Ahh, thanks, I should have caught this. I recall I rewrote a similar one
to $( (command; command) | command ) more than once before.