From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:21:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add semicolon to curly brace group in main Makefile
Message-ID: <7vhc0aaa6f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1240799808-7340-1-git-send-email-markdrago@gmail.com>

Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com> writes:

> This semicolon is technically required by bash and indeed caused a syntax error
> on a system that I came across running, an admittedly very old, bash-2.04.0.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Grouping
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com>

Thanks; it is not specific to bash.  At the end of compound_list before
the Rbrace at the end of brace_group, a separator is required.