Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:53:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > >> >> The manual page for recent dash may need an update. >> >> Can you perhaps file a bug on their documentation? >> > >> > Yes, I agree that dash.1 is out-of-date after cbb71a8. Konstantin: >> > please feel free to use any of this if it's helpful to you in creating a >> > bug report for the dash folks. >> >> I doubt that we can write off dash v0.5.10 as too old to matter, as >> the tagger date seems to be mid 2020 at >> >> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash/+/refs/tags/v0.5.11 > > That isn't quite what I was implying. What I meant to say was that the > dash _manual page_ is out-of-date w.r.t. the dash patch I linked, not > that that version is something we could ignore. Oh, I didn't mean it that way. I was continuing from your findings that certain features of "local" may not have been available in 0.5.10; hence the hits from grep that showed any assignment might be problematic with that version and we may need to downgrade our scripts. But as Szeder writes in a response later in the thread, assignment on "local" may have been avaiable in versions before 0.5.11 in a limited form (namely, it is split at $IFS unlike normal assignments, which was the starting point of this thread), which reduces the scope of downgrading necessary by a large margin ;-)
