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Re: [PATCH] doc: filter-branch does not require re-export of vars

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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May 29, 2017, 04:27 UTC
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Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com> writes:
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>> However, I think POSIX mandates the behavior you'd expect. And the only
>> shell I know that misbehaves in this way is Solaris /bin/sh, which we
>> have already declared too broken to support.
>
> Off-topic, but where is this explicitly documented?
One link I had readily available was
  https://public-inbox.org/git/7vei5qtnc5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/

but there may be older discussions that were the actual process of our officially having "written its /bin/sh off as broken and unusable" if you dig further in the list archive.

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  1. doc: filter-branch does not require re-export of varsAndreas Heiduk, May 26, 2017
  2. Jeff KingMay 26, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2017
  4. Samuel LijinMay 29, 2017
  5. Jeff KingMay 29, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2017
  7. Jeff KingMay 29, 2017

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