Re: [PATCH] t7403-*.sh: Avoid use of the nonportable '==' operator

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On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Some shells, including dash, do not support using the '==' string
>> equality operator. This results in the failure of tests 7-12 with
>> 'test' complaining of an "unexpected operator".
>
> Thanks.  You do not have to single-out dash.
> A shell script that uses "test $a == $b" is *buggy* and not conforming to
> POSIX.

Yep. This slipped through because I happen to have reconfigured my
/bin/sh to point to bash (frrom Ubuntu's default of dash) because of
an issue with a product installation script. This shouldn't have been
a problem if bash's POSIX mode was strict about rejecting == but bash
doesn't seem to be strict about this.

Anyway, I have reverted /bin/sh to refer to dash so hopefully I won't
be caught by this in future.

jon.
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