From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 05:36:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage.
Message-ID: <7vpshxbde9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060529052828.GB24077@localdomain>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:06:17PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
>> > None of the variables seem to conflict, so local was unnecessary.
>> 
>> BTW, dash supports (and has always supported) local which is a quite
>> useful feature.
>
> Cool.  Hmm... pdksh seems to support it here (Debian sid).  I'm pretty
> sure local is not part of the POSIX spec, though; and I have seen
> /bin/sh that don't support it.

Concurred.  There are things Herbert said are clearly dash bugs,
but this one is outside POSIX, so lets leave your changes to the
test for it.