git/contrib/examples/git-repack.sh, branch v2.6.2

contrib/examples/git-repack.sh: avoid "test -a/-o "

2014-06-09T21:47:06Z

The construct is error-prone; "test" being built-in in most modern shells, the reason to avoid "test && test " spawning one extra process by using a single "test -a " no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git-repack.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution

2014-04-17T18:15:00Z

The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`. The backquoted form is the traditional method for command substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require careful escaping with the backslash character. The patch was generated by: for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh") do sed -i 's@`$.*$`@$(\1)@g' ${_f} done and then carefully proof-read. Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

repack: rewrite the shell script in C

2013-09-17T20:34:50Z

The motivation of this patch is to get closer to a goal of being able to have a core subset of git functionality built in to git. That would mean * people on Windows could get a copy of at least the core parts of Git without having to install a Unix-style shell * people using git in on servers with chrooted environments do not need to worry about standard tools lacking for shell scripts. This patch is meant to be mostly a literal translation of the git-repack script; the intent is that later patches would start using more library facilities, but this patch is meant to be as close to a no-op as possible so it doesn't do that kind of thing. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano