Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > Sorry for late answer, but there is a problem (both linux and Mac OS X) :-( > $ make test-lint does not do shel syntax check, neither > $ make test-lint-shell-syntax In which directory? $ make -C t test-lint-shell-syntax ... passes silently ... $ ed t/t0000-basic.sh /test_expect_success/ a which sh . w q $ make -C t test-lint-shell-syntax t0000-basic.sh:28: error: which is not portable (please use type): which sh make: *** [test-lint-shell-syntax] Error 1 If you edit out '@' (but nothing else) from this line: > @'$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' check-non-portable-shell.pl $(T) and run the above again, you would see that it is running this shell command: '/usr/bin/perl' check-non-portable-shell.pl t0000-basic.sh t0001-init.sh ... If you introduce a Perl syntax error to check-non-portable-shell.pl, like this, you will get: $ make -C t test-lint-shell-syntax syntax error at check-non-portable-shell.pl line 11, near "whoa So... is your shell broken? The above seems to work for dash, bash, ksh and zsh. -- 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