From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 16:20:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1507: change quoting in test_did_you_mean to a more general one
Message-ID: <7vr587q20i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DC78C3C.6060004@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Am 5/9/2011 6:40, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>> 
>>> - The behavior of quoting at the right of :- when the ${...:-...} exansion
>>> appears in double-quotes was debated recently at length at the Austin
>>> group (which revises the POSIX standard). You better move the expansions
>>> to assignments of temporary variables,...
>> 
>> What alternative semantics do Austin folks have in mind, by the way?  Just
>> declare this undefined?
>
> Most of the debate centered around how to quote a closing brace: the

Thanks for a summary.

> Looks good otherwise; I tested this with various shells, and there were no
> surprises.

Thanks, will amend.