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Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 27, 2005, 18:00 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Oh - there's another similarity between $(..) and $((..)). They're both 
> POSIX 1003.2 standard features, so any "modern" shell should support them. 
> Although in practice I don't know if that means anything else than ksh 
> (where both syntaxes came from, actually).
OK, you prodded me enough to come to 21st century ;-).

I was hoping that doing .git/objects/ traversal and disk block accounting ourselves maybe in C or Perl would be enough for that particular program, but I would not object if the community concensus is we would run on only POSIX shells anymore.

I still resist saying that we run only on Bash, though. I suspect we already have some bashism on the periphery, but eradicating them has been lower priority for me.

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Message 8 of 18 in “Avoid using dc in git-count-objects”
  1. Avoid using dc in git-count-objectsJohannes Schindelin, Oct 25, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 26, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 26, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisOct 26, 2005
  5. Matthias UrlichsOct 27, 2005
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 27, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 27, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2005
  9. Herbert XuOct 28, 2005
  10. H. Peter AnvinOct 28, 2005
  11. Herbert XuOct 28, 2005
  12. H. Peter AnvinOct 28, 2005
  13. Herbert XuOct 28, 2005
  14. H. Peter AnvinOct 28, 2005
  15. Johannes SchindelinOct 26, 2005
  16. Andreas EricssonOct 26, 2005
  17. Johannes SchindelinOct 26, 2005
  18. Andreas EricssonOct 26, 2005

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