* Johannes Sixt wrote on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:57:34AM CET: > Benoit Sigoure schrieb: >> Off topic question: why do you guys always do this instead of doing, say, >> this: >> >> INTERACTIVE=false [...] >> if $INTERACTIVE; then >> git_editor "$TODO" || die ... >> fi > > Because in some shells 'false' is not a built-in. [...] > INTERACTIVE="! :" # false Which shells do not have 'false' but do support '!' as process exit status negation? For them, is it important to save another fork? Solaris sh has neither (it will error on the '!'), but it's ruled out for git anyway. Cheers, Ralf - 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
