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Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: Shell syntax fix for NetBSD

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 28, 2006, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID
<7vbqthdfpa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<20060528204510.G51ab1cf8@leonov.stosberg.net>
Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net> writes:
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> NetBSD's default shell does not accept an opening parenthesis in
> a case switch.
>
> $ ./git-fetch
> ./git-fetch: 219: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>
> ---
> With this change applied to the next branch, all tests complete
> successfully on NetBSD 3.0 without having bash installed.
Funny.  Without the posixy open parenthesis, bash barfs ;-).
        git-fetch: line 219: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
        git-fetch: line 219: `                 *^*) continue ;;'

So how about doing this instead? Does NetBSD default shell still work with it?

diff --git a/git-fetch.sh b/git-fetch.sh
index 280f62e..69bd810 100755
--- a/git-fetch.sh
+++ b/git-fetch.sh
@@ -211,12 +211,12 @@ # Otherwise we do what we always did.
 reflist=$(get_remote_refs_for_fetch "$@")
 if test "$tags"
 then
-	taglist=$(IFS="	" &&
+	taglist=`IFS="	" &&
 		  git-ls-remote $upload_pack --tags "$remote" |
 	          while read sha1 name
 		  do
 			case "$name" in
-			(*^*) continue ;;
+			*^*) continue ;;
 			esac
 		  	if git-check-ref-format "$name"
 			then
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ then
 			else
 			    echo >&2 "warning: tag ${name} ignored"
 			fi
-		  done)
+		  done`
 	if test "$#" -gt 1
 	then
 		# remote URL plus explicit refspecs; we need to merge them.
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