Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:28:44AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: > >> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:07:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: >> > -- >8 -- >> > Subject: CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" >> > >> > The advice to use "$x" rather than "x" in arithmetric expansion was >> > working around a dash bug fixed in 0.5.4. Even Debian oldstable has >> > 0.5.7 these days. >> >> that would be oldoldstable, oldstable is actually in 0.5.8 ;) > > Oh, you're right. I forgot they're doing an extra layer these days. It > will officially become obsolete in less than 2 months. :) Thanks, both. I'll just do s/0.5.7/0.5.8/ when I add Carlo's reviewed-by to queue the patch.
