Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 6, 2007, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711062324590.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071106210210.GA32159@glandium.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:46:35PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > [5/5] Again, have you covered all of them?  I am not opposed to
> >       this one, although I am a bit curious who lacks -a/-o in
> >       practice.
> 
> Solaris's /bin/sh, but it already doesn't support $() and other stuff
> used all over the place in git, so it's not like it's changing anything.
> 
> Maybe some other obscure old crappy shell ?

As Junio commented in the part you did not quote, there are better shells in Solaris. Use those.

Ciao, Dscho

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