From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:11:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shell portability: Use sed instead of non-portable variable expansion
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In-Reply-To: <4E648031.6050607@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Am 9/5/2011 9:09, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> By the way, t9010 uses ${#parameter} (strlen) which is bashism we forbid,
>> and it needs to be rewritten (David CC'ed).
>
> Actually, no. It is perfectly valid POSIX. So we would need this patch.

I know it is in POSIX, but not in the subset we allowed so far. I do not
recall the details offhand, but we must have seen some shell that lacked
it or something.