From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:33:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove bashism from t3210-pack-refs.sh
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610060931160.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <eg5r9k$58c$1@sea.gmane.org>



On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> > On 10/6/06, Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net> wrote:
> >> -     SHA1=$(< .git/refs/heads/a) &&
> >> +     SHA1=`cat .git/refs/heads/a` &&
> > 
> > Only "<" (the redirection part) is bashism. The "$()" is POSIX.
> 
> BTW. it is not packed-refs safe.

Well, since that seems to be a test-case for the packed-refs thing, that's 
probably not a problem ;)

In a real-life git script you should do something like

	SHA1=$(git-rev-parse --verify "refs/heads/$head^0") && ...

to get the SHA1 and verify that it's all good, but since that script is 
all about checking that packing does the right thing, I think it's fine to 
do it by hand there..

		Linus