Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> I happen to feel ${parameter#word} is more esoteric than $(cmd).
>>> If a system does not even do the latter, then avoiding the
>>> former to help such a system is a futile effort.
>>
>> The situation is that we currently don't avoid the former. Robert
>> said that he had prepared a patch that would do so.
>> ...
>> But "only a little bit of ${parameter#word}, please" seems pointless.
>
> Absolutely. And we started to adopt #/% substititions some time
> ago. Undoing them just feels going backwards, and we need to judge
> what the merits of going backwards are.
Ok, seems like the sort of cleanups I proposed would not clash with
current git policies. I'll readily agree that the timing of their
adoption might not really fit with a rc4, but posting them for the
queue does not seem outrageous.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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