From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:58:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh
Message-ID: <7vd4wbgp9t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <86tzpnwdha.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:
>
>>> That is, what does the shell say if you do this?
>>> 
>>> 	case Ultra in
>>>         Super)
>>>         	false ;;
>>> 	Hyper)
>>>         	true ;;
>>> 	esac &&
>>>         echo case returned ok
>>
>> It says 'case returned ok', so I will try to understand why it
>> works here and does not work in the 'while' construct.
>
> What you actually need to do is
>
> false
> case Ultra in
>    Super)
>    	false ;;
> Hyper)
>    	true ;;
> esac && echo case returned ok

AHHHHHH.

Is "case" supposed to be transparent?