From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 19:51:16 GMT
Subject: Re: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash: declare -g is not portable
Message-ID: <87lgg9g8cr.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
In-Reply-To: <1e618c0c-81ba-fa7e-8039-748bdfa5a6d9@web.de>

On Feb 03 2018, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:

> What is "declare -g" good for ?

      -g        create global variables when used in a shell function; otherwise
                ignored

    When used in a function, `declare' makes NAMEs local, as with the `local'
    command.  The `-g' option suppresses this behavior.
    
Andreas.

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