On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:30:39 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Most bizarre workaround found for clone (the first 4 failures): > > --8<--- > > diff -pur /a5/pro/3gl/LINUX/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh git-clone.sh > > --- a/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh 2008-02-02 05:09:01 +0100 > > +++ b/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh 2008-02-18 10:03:26 +0100 > > @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ yes) > > '') git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet $depth $no_progress "$repo";; > > *) git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet "$upload_pack" $depth $no_progress "$repo" ;; > > esac >"$GIT_DIR/CLONE_HEAD" || > > - die "fetch-pack from '$repo' failed." > > + exit 1 > > + # die "fetch-pack from '$repo' failed." > > ;; > > esac > > ;; > > That sounds *very* broken. Indeed, and trying to see if eval or exiting from with a sub caused this weird behaviour, I failed to come up with a simple test script to prove this. > Is your /bin/sh really a variant of Bourne? Yes NAME sh - overview of various system shells SYNOPSIS POSIX Shell: sh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ... [-c string] [arg ...] rsh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ... [-c string] [arg ...] Korn Shell: ksh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ... [-c string] [arg ...] rksh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ... [-c string] [arg ...] C Shell: csh [-cefinstvxTVX] [command_file] [argument_list ...] Key Shell: keysh > If HP-UX is broken in a similar way as Solaris is, in that it > installs a non-POSIX shell under /bin/sh and offers a Korn in > /bin/ksh, "make SHELL_PATH=/bin/ksh" may help. $ path -al sh ksh 27231 100555 -r-x 2 bin 586136 27 Aug 2004 03:36 /usr/bin/sh 1744 100555 -r-x 1 bin 1219780 27 Aug 2004 03:36 /sbin/sh 3206 100555 -r-x 2 bin 446904 27 Aug 2004 03:20 /usr/bin/ksh And running all with ksh only makes things worse! $ cat t0000-basic.sh.err t0000-basic.sh[31]: !: not found test_expect_success[31]: !: not found test_expect_success[31]: !: not found test_expect_failure[31]: !: not found test_expect_success[31]: !: not found test_expect_success[31]: !: not found test_expect_success[31]: !: not found test_expect_failure[31]: !: not found : : -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ - 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