From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 04:27:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: filter-branch does not require re-export of vars
Message-ID: <xmqqa85w8eym.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJZjrdVjeeHUN_biza-MA9iqP5Y5CO3DkLaGG-Bq1w5oo5tW_g@mail.gmail.com>

Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.