From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:55:52 GMT
Subject: Re: quick bare clones taking longer?
Message-ID: <7vbqgsibrr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070510T224750-851@post.gmane.org>

Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> In fact, all POSIX shells should support `cd -P' according to the spec, so it
> should probably just be used directly instead of hoping that /bin/pwd exists.
>
> (cd -P "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2>/dev/null
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cd.html

Yes but no ;-).  I've said this a few times on the list in the
past, but I'll repeat it again for new people.

We reject something whose portability in question by saying
"It's not _even in_ POSIX".  We on the other hand try to refrain
from saying "POSIX says you are supposed to have it, so screw
people that are not fully POSIX".