From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 22:21:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7403-*.sh: Avoid use of the nonportable '==' operator
Message-ID: <CAH3AnrqgfjjpN3V10y0v1tMGZ3f5G-RjL5LV9he-0sdbvrMLNQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FC10A0B.5080407@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Ramsay Jones
<ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Some shells, including dash, do not support using the '==' string
> equality operator. This results in the failure of tests 7-12 with
> 'test' complaining of an "unexpected operator".
>
> In order to suppress the errors, we replace the '==' operator with
> '=', which must be supported by any POSIX shell.
>

Thanks. I take it than an example of such a shell is dash?

BTW: the next iteration is more of a re-write than a re-roll because I
noticed some other issues (e.g. preventing git://hostname/repo being
silently transformed to git://subrepo in the case of a pathological
use of a submodule URL of the form ../../subrepo) and fixing this
required a change that required a more extensive suite of tests.


jon.