Am 8/5/2011 14:36, schrieb Sverre Rabbelier: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 21:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> has_action () { >> test -s "$1" >> } > >> has_action () { >> sane_grep -v -e '^#' -e '^[ ]*$' "$1" >/dev/null >> } > > I think the former more correctly checks what the function name > implies, is there any downside to that which makes you suggest this > second approach? Yes. There might be editors where it is difficult to edit a non-empty file so that it becomes empty. I recall this was a problem for me with vi before I got intimately acquainted with it. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html