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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-08-14 14:54:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-08-14 14:54:58 -0700 |
| commit | dd59778f763f9e8d54d04747880e2f0a9fcd708f (patch) | |
| tree | da9a183730d5fdcc3345ba535ec212deb000bdcf /Documentation/CodingGuidelines | |
| parent | Merge branch 'rs/use-decimal-width' (diff) | |
| parent | doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'jc/document-use-of-local'
Doc update.
* jc/document-use-of-local:
doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite
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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 2f35b6691f..e4bd0abdcd 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 |