From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:48:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-submodule has bash-ism?
Message-ID: <xmqq8tyoy6se.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160601202852.GP1355@john.keeping.me.uk>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> Absolutely, my original point should have been prefixed with: I wonder
> if the reason we haven't had any problems reported is because ...
>
> And we've got lucky because the clobbering of global variables happens
> not to matter in these particular cases.

Ah, I did misunderstand why you were making that statement, and now
I fully agree with your conclusion (which is what Jeff spelled out
in the latest message) that the fact that we saw no breakage report
is not a datapoint that everybody's shell supports "local" at all.

Thanks for clarification.