From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:18:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh Message-ID: <7vvea3h7sn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <86abrfy377.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> David Kastrup 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.