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Re: A note on modern git plus ancient meld ("wrong number of arguments")

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2012, 11:29 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:23, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> +       meld_version=${meld_version#GNOME }
> +       meld_version=${meld_version#* }

Hmm, I might be mistaken, but aren't these string operations Bash-only? And AFAIK Git is striving for standard sh compatibility ...

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  1. Jeff EplerFeb 9, 2012
  2. David AguilarFeb 10, 2012
  3. Jonathan NiederFeb 10, 2012
  4. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 10, 2012
  5. Jonathan NiederFeb 10, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  7. mergetools/meld: Use --help output to detect --output supportJonathan Nieder, Feb 10, 2012
  8. Jeff EplerFeb 10, 2012
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