On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:36:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Use /bin/sh interpreter instead of /bin/bash for contrib/git-subtree: > > it's required for systems which don't use bash by default (for example, > > FreeBSD), while there seem to be no bashisms in the script (confirmed > > by looking through the source and tesing subtree functionality with > > FreeBSD's /bin/sh) to require specifically bash and not the generic > > posix shell. > > Has anybody audited to make sure that the script itself is free of > bash-isms? > > I somehow had an impression that in the past it was littered with > bash-isms like function local variables and array variables and > assumed that the #!/bin/bash was necessary. I did a quick > eyeballing and did not see anything glaringly bash-only, but I may > have missed something (the coding style is so different from the > core part of Git Porcelains and distracting for me to efficiently > do a good job of scanning). I ran the test suite with dash and everything passed. checkbashisms doesn't find any problems either. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh > > index 8a23f58..5701376 100755 > > --- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh > > +++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > > -#!/bin/bash > > +#!/bin/sh > > # > > # git-subtree.sh: split/join git repositories in subdirectories of this one > > # -- 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