From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 07:52:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] git-sh-i18n--envsubst: our own envsubst(1) for eval_gettext()
Message-ID: <BANLkTino5PpXY8eD+T3Ki+2Xn1MLjZojTQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vsjsor29t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 05:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Or are we sure that this can't work in POSIX (or non-POSIX shells)?
>
> You need to implement the same logic to tokenize enough to understand the
> expansion the shell does inside dq.  Yes, shell is general programming
> language and you can theoretically implement it, but would the result be a
> practical solution?  I doubt it.

I'll write a better commit message and re-send this soon (after some
other comments have trickled in).