Re: [PATCH] Enhanced auto-discovery of httpd location and call conventions.

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2008, 07:52 UTC
Message-ID: <m3r6b3qedj.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1213235480-21925-1-git-send-email-flavio@polettix.it>

"Flavio Poletti (polettix)" <flavio@polettix.it> writes:

> Another minor change is a substitution of a shell sub-call using "$()"
> by means of backticks. In my understanding, plain /bin/sh does not support
> "$()".

But POSIX shell does.  And git does make use of it rather extensively.

Besides, see Documentation/CodingGuidelines:

  For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):

   - We prefer $( ... ) for command substitution; unlike ``, it
     properly nests.  It should have been the way Bourne spelled
     it from day one, but unfortunately isn't.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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