Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 22, 2007, 00:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6krh7ny.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vvea3h7sn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> But doing a break inside of the while _condition_ rather than the body
>> just feels wrong to me.
>
> Sorry, but that is not the issue on the thread is about.
> BSD shell is failing the whole case statement when there is no
> matching case arm.

I did not mean "BSD shell" in general here. The shell Eygene uses on his (unspecified version of) FreeBSD box is failing.

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