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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 1d92b2da03..94ca5cf7c0 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 |