From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:56:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] travis-ci: build documentation
Message-ID: <xmqqh9epmxtj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <EDD0757C-2BD3-476F-B703-147D35BB1FAC@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

>> There also are existing instances of "useless ;" that would want to
>> be cleaned up regardless of portability issues.
> Unfortunately it seems to be required. Travis CI generates a shell script
> out of the yml file and I think they don't respect newlines or something...

If they squash all the lines into a single long line before
executing, these semicolons do indeed become necessary (we have to
write a logical single line shell script in our Makefiles with ';',
and I'd imagine Travis's scriptlets are done similarly).

Thanks.