From: David Kastrup Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:06:02 GMT Subject: Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes? Message-ID: <85lkctw3sl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <7vabt9sasl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >>> I happen to feel ${parameter#word} is more esoteric than $(cmd). >>> If a system does not even do the latter, then avoiding the >>> former to help such a system is a futile effort. >> >> The situation is that we currently don't avoid the former. Robert >> said that he had prepared a patch that would do so. >> ... >> But "only a little bit of ${parameter#word}, please" seems pointless. > > Absolutely. And we started to adopt #/% substititions some time > ago. Undoing them just feels going backwards, and we need to judge > what the merits of going backwards are. Ok, seems like the sort of cleanups I proposed would not clash with current git policies. I'll readily agree that the timing of their adoption might not really fit with a rc4, but posting them for the queue does not seem outrageous. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum