On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 11:52:22PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:42:22AM +0100, André Laszlo wrote:
> > +test_expect_success 'git pull --rebase with corrupt HEAD does not segfault' '
> > + mkdir corrupted &&
> > + (cd corrupted &&
> > + git init &&
> > + echo one >file && git add file &&
> > + git commit -m one &&
> > + REV=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
> > + rm -f .git/objects/${REV:0:2}/${REV:2} &&
>
> I think this is a bashism. On dash, I get the following:
>
> genre ok % dash -c 'foo=abcdefg; echo ${foo:0:2}; echo ${foo:2}'
> dash: 1: Bad substitution
Yeah, it is. You can do it easily with 'sed', of course, but if you want
to avoid the extra process and do it in pure shell, it's more like:
last38=${REV#??}
first2=${REV%$last38}
rm -f .git/objects/$first2/$last38
-Peff