From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:45:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-save script
Message-ID: <7vbqf5t9vm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200706241044.l5OAiMCB012492@mi0.bluebottle.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> ...
>> When you say "#!/bin/sh", you are writing for the family of
>> generic Bourne shells, not specifically for korn nor bash.  For
>> example, dash is a fine POSIX shell, but does not grok function
>> noiseword.  When in doubt, please stay away from things not in
>> POSIX (e.g. function, [[, ]], ${parameter//pattern/string/}).
>
> Is there a good reference you can point me?

I usually look at this:

    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/

and click on "Shell and Utilities volume (XCU)", and compare it
with "man bash".

> At first I wanted to do git-add . instead of git-add -u, but then I
> became worried that will add files that are not interesting such as
> temporary files.

As long as .gitignore is set up properly to ignore such
generated files, that shouldn't be a problem.