From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:37:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/7] revision.h: introduce blob/tree walking in order of the commits
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWpUMOCYyK=S8JiAV5DHF6BYDff8wH0N6QDeR=nvOXnLA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1711011316590.6482@virtualbox>

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>         ...
>         (
>                 for x in four three
>                 do
>                         git rm $x &&
>                         git commit -m "remote $x" ||
>                         exit
>                 done
>         ) &&
>         test 0 -eq $? &&
>         ...
>
> Ugly? Yes. Correct? Also yes.

I think returning non-zero with "return" is how other tests avoid an
extra level of subshell.
Ugly? Yes. Correct? Questionable but it seems to work for those who
wrote them ;-)