On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
I vaguely recall somebody else had exactly this issue and he concluded that the shell was busted. I do not recall the details of the story but interestingly, if he did something that accesses "$#" before the problematic "while case $# in ..." the shell behaved for him in his experiments.
That is what I did notice, just accessing $# fixed later uses of it.
Also by my comment about "/bin/sh and bash not being the only shells available on FreeBSD", I did not mean that you should change your /bin/sh. You can build git with SHELL_PATH make varilable pointing at a non-broken shell, which does not have to be installed as /bin/sh.
If one's installing from the ports tree, then the port should depend on a non-broken shell and set SHELL_PATH. And as for installing by hand, just print out a warning that SHELL_PATH points to a broken shell and be done with it. This is a FreeBSD bug, not a git one. I had been meaning to write up a bug about this using a small test case, but I couldn't reproduce it. Adam - 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
