Re: Bug report : bad filter-branch (OSX only)

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... would behave incorrectly without "-r". I would be shocked if that ever
> happens in real life, but I think it doesn't hurt to be careful.

Ahh, OK.  I overlooked the continued-line possibility.

> $$ is always the pid of the main shell process,...

Thanks for straightening me out---I was too lazy to run strace ;-)

> ... But I can imagine a shell that is smart
> enough to realize a fork is not required in this instance.

Yup. I think that is a natural thing to optimize for implementors of shells.

Thanks.