"Dan Nicholson" <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 5/10/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ... >> We reject something whose portability is in question by saying >> "It's not _even in_ POSIX". We on the other hand try to refrain >> from saying "POSIX says you are supposed to have it, so screw >> people that are not fully POSIX". > > Yes, I suppose. At the same time, git already implicitly requires more > than, say, a Bourne shell. Yes, and the line is fuzzy and case by case. I am playing it safe as we are in pre-release freeze, also I condider /bin/pwd much more universally available than "cd -P". - 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