From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:26:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (3) - limit summary size
Message-ID: <7vpruexkbd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803010442y12c1326dk45f53ce17453b53c@mail.gmail.com>

"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> expr is portable?

It's not just portable but is a very old fashioned and time-proven way to
do things like this.

>>         if summary_limit=$(( $2 + 0 )) 2>/dev/null ||
>>            test "$2" != "$summary_limit"
>>         then
>>                 usage
>>         fi
>>
>
> summary_limit=$(( $2 + 0 )) will always has return status 0

Ah, there's a typo there.  The intention was to reject non numbers

	for two in 43 -32 'deadbeef' ' -27' HEAD ''
        do
		if sl=$(( $two + 0 )) 2>/dev/null && test "$two" == "$sl"
                then
                	echo Ah, "$two", that is a number.
		else
                	echo You gave me an un-number "'$two' (vs '$sl')".
		fi
	done