Brandon Casey <bcasey@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> > > This reverts commit 69a8141a5d81925b7e08cb228535e9ea4a7a02e3. > > Old Bash (3.0) which is distributed with RHEL 4.X and other ancient > platforms that are still in wide use, does not have a printf that > supports -v. Let's revert this patch and go back to using printf > in the traditional way. > > Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> > --- Is this something you can detect at load-time once, store the result in a private variable and then switch on it at runtime, something along the lines of... # on load... printf -v __git_printf_supports_v -- "%s" yes >/dev/null 2>&1 ... if test "${__git_printf_supports_v}" = yes then printf -v gitstring -- "$printf_format" "$gitstring" else gitstring=$(printf -- "$printf_format" "$gitstring") fi > contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh | 6 +----- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > index a81ef5a..7698ec4 100644 > --- a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > +++ b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > @@ -433,11 +433,7 @@ __git_ps1 () > local gitstring="$c${b##refs/heads/}${f:+$z$f}$r$p" > > if [ $pcmode = yes ]; then > - if [[ -n ${ZSH_VERSION-} ]]; then > - gitstring=$(printf -- "$printf_format" "$gitstring") > - else > - printf -v gitstring -- "$printf_format" "$gitstring" > - fi > + gitstring=$(printf -- "$printf_format" "$gitstring") > PS1="$ps1pc_start$gitstring$ps1pc_end" > else > printf -- "$printf_format" "$gitstring" -- 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