You might find this thread amusing. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/7116/focus=7136 Historically, I have even avoided accepting ${var#word}, ${var%word}, and arithmetic expansions. I would still reject shell arrays. - 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