From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:00:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7800: avoid arithmetic expansion notation
Message-ID: <7vfwivz9dd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4nzb1mjd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>
>> ba959de (git-difftool: allow skipping file by typing 'n' at prompt, 2011-10-08)
>> introduced shell code like
>>
>> $((foo; bar) | baz)
>>
>> which some shells (e.g. bash, dash) interpret as an unfinished arithmetic
>> evaluation $(( expr )).
>
> Ahh, thanks, I should have caught this. I recall I rewrote a similar one
> to $( (command; command) | command ) more than once before.

Forgot to mention that I love to see the issues on topics discovered and
corrected before they are still cooking in 'next', like this ;-)

Thanks all.