Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > For the purpose of git-prompt, I think it should be OK (without > "local", it is harder, if not impossible, to clobber end-user's > shell variable namespace with various temporaries we need to use > during prompt computation) to declare that we now support shells > other than bash and zsh as long as they are reasonably POSIX and > support "local" that is dynamic. "to clobber" -> "to avoid clobbering", sorry for the noise.