From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Weird problem with git-submodule.sh
Message-ID: <CABURp0qCv9aaORMFnVTjaJ_QYD3h-=aOnu9BC8ZgUqRT3678hw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vehiv3vjm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:
>> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/141481
>
> None of the ones listed seems to me a bug.  Rather, I see it as a
> sign that the reporter does not know POSIX shell well and only
> learned his/her shell through bash.

You're probably right.  I run into enough problems with 'dash' as
/bin/sh that I always have to disable it early after a new install.
In particular, an third-party embedded linux kernel build script fails
in cryptic ways with dash.   But it is probably the third-party's poor
understanding of POSIX shell which is to blame.

I think git's 'make test' previously would also fail under dash, but
it seems to be happy with it atm.

Phil