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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-08-26 11:10:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-08-26 11:10:23 -0700 |
| commit | b452be06ffc425b0e7616e09b13f692d2a1aef3a (patch) | |
| tree | f29f0e09cf9412591b91b03d37356cfd3b2c3411 | |
| parent | 9a7bd3d0cb2b08b29edfe51b61893dc6856e74f0 (diff) | |
| parent | 67be8c4de5255efd95c48c9ddd6cd8537fbf03d1 (diff) | |
| download | git-b452be06ffc425b0e7616e09b13f692d2a1aef3a.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jc/document-use-of-local' into maint-2.46
Doc update.
* jc/document-use-of-local:
doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 52afb2725f..8fb873358a 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive): - Even though "local" is not part of POSIX, we make heavy use of it in our test suite. We do not use it in scripted Porcelains, and - hopefully nobody starts using "local" before they are reimplemented - in C ;-) + hopefully nobody starts using "local" before all shells that matter + support it (notably, ksh from AT&T Research does not support it yet). - Some versions of shell do not understand "export variable=value", so we write "variable=value" and then "export variable" on two |