Re: git-name-rev off-by-one bug

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 1, 2005, 10:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd5khjf9g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051128234256.1508.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com writes:

> Anyway, if it's portable enough, it's faster.  Ah... I just found discussion
> of this in late September, but it's not clear what the resolution was.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112746188000003

Although updating our shell scripts to this century is lower on my priority scale, ideally I'd want to see things work with dash, not because I do not like bash/ksh, but because it seems the smallest minimally POSIXy shell.

Speaking of shell gotchas, I do not know what the resolution was on the problem Merlyn was having the other day in "lost again on syntax change - local repository?" thread, which seemed that the failure described in <868xv86dam.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> was his bash mishandling an if..then..elif..else..fi chain, which was sort of unexpected for me. I was curious but do not remember seeing the conclusion. Pasky, what happened to that thread?