From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 06:41:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Tests in Cygwin
Message-ID: <7v4ovwaygf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A03CAFE.4060503@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

>>   +for prerequisite in $(echo "$1" | tr , ' ')
>
> So, you dislike the space separator, but you also dislike the IFS games
> that save a few new processes? ;) (Think of Windows, where fork is expensive).

You can play IFS=, game, then ;-)

I have to admit that it feels so 80'ish, back when our UNIX machines were
so slow that we tried to shave every fork+exec from our shell scripts by
using built-ins when possible, though.