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Re: Make git-version-gen compatible with dash shell
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Make git-version-gen compatible with dash shell |
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Sun, 8 May 2016 11:21:48 -0700 |
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Mosè Giordano wrote:
> the attached patch makes git-version-gen compatible with dash shell,
> whose shift built-in aborts when there are no more arguments.
Can you explain why that patch is needed? The 'shift' is inside a 'while test $#
-gt 0' loop, so I don't see how $# could be zero there. What's the use case and
behavior without the patch?