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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rebase: learn to rebase root commit

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2009, 22:49 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> I'm still not sure what ${1+"$@"} was about by the way.

It is one of the many old-timer's portability idioms that let us work around bugs in some ancient shell implementations.

${1+"$@"} should be equivalent to "$@" in modern Bourne shell variants that are POSIX compliant.

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Message 24 of 27 in “rebase --root”
  1. 0/3 rebase --rootThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  2. rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  3. rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  4. rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  5. Thomas RastDec 29, 2008
  6. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 29, 2008
  7. Thomas RastDec 30, 2008
  8. 1/3 rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 30, 2008
  9. 2/3 rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 30, 2008
  10. 3/3 rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast, Dec 30, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 1, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2009
  13. Thomas RastJan 2, 2009
  14. 1/4 rebase -i: execute hook only after argument checkingThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  15. 2/4 rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  16. 3/4 rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  17. 4/4 rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  18. 3/4 rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  19. 2/4 rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2009
  21. rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  22. rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 5, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2009
  25. Thomas RastJan 2, 2009
  26. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2008

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