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Re: [PATCH 1/2] subtree: fix the GIT_EXEC_PATH sanity check to work on Windows

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2021, 02:33 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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>> `test FILE1 -ef FILE2` checks wether the inode is the same.  And it's
>> POSIX, so I'm assuming that it's sufficiently portable, though I
>> haven't actually tested whether things other than Bash implement it.
>
> It's not POSIX. From
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html:
>
> 	Some additional primaries newly invented or from the KornShell
> 	appeared in an early proposal as part of the conditional command
> 	([[]]): s1 > s2, s1 < s2, str = pattern, str != pattern,
> 	f1 -nt f2, f1 -ot f2, and f1 -ef f2.
>
> Having said that, it appears that Bash implements it (what non-standard
> behavior _doesn't_ it implement ;-))
>
> And since Git for Windows ships with Bash, we can actually use it!
So,... is contrib/subtree for Windows only?
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Message 9 of 27 in “Fix git subtree on Windows”
  1. 0/2 Fix git subtree on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 10, 2021
  2. 1/2 subtree: fix the GIT_EXEC_PATH sanity check to work on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 10, 2021
  3. Luke ShumakerJun 11, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2021
  5. Luke ShumakerJun 11, 2021
  6. Johannes SchindelinJun 11, 2021
  7. Luke ShumakerJun 11, 2021
  8. Johannes SchindelinJun 14, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2021
  10. Jeff KingJun 15, 2021
  11. Bagas SanjayaJun 15, 2021
  12. Jeff KingJun 15, 2021
  13. Johannes SchindelinJun 15, 2021
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2021
  15. Jeff KingJun 16, 2021
  16. 2/2 subtree: fix assumption about the directory separatorJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 10, 2021
  17. Luke ShumakerJun 11, 2021
  18. Johannes SchindelinJun 11, 2021
  19. Luke ShumakerJun 11, 2021
  20. Johannes SchindelinJun 11, 2021
  21. Luke ShumakerJun 11, 2021
  22. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2021
  23. Luke ShumakerJun 12, 2021
  24. 0/2 Fix git subtree on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 14, 2021
  25. 2/2 subtree: fix assumption about the directory separatorJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 14, 2021
  26. 1/2 subtree: fix the GIT_EXEC_PATH sanity check to work on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 14, 2021
  27. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2021

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