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Re: Pushing a single tag (ref + object)?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 19, 2005, 16:58 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> It does all this magic to set "x", but then it never uses it, and uses 
> "$@" instead after all. Which it has shifted all away.

Your /bin/sh scripting is rotting ;-) That is not a variable. If you saw the script actually used the value 'x' then you have spotted a bug.

That 'x' is not a magic but an old idiom to protect 'set' from getting confused by "$1" that happens to begin with a '-'. Setting random things is done by "set x random things" immediately followed by shifting that x away.

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