On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:44:41AM -0800, Marcel M. Cary wrote: > > Actually, it was not clear for me how much you researched the portability > > of "cd -P". > > I have not. I've seen only that it's POSIX, is on BSD and Linux, and > was suggested by Junio. Even Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/sh has it. Their /bin/sh does not, but that is not a surprise: that shell is useless and already unsupported by git. I don't know about other obscure platforms (wasn't there some guy running git on antique SCO machines or something?). I think it is nice to shoot for "more portable" in general, and I don't particularly care one way or the other about this feature. But I think we are somewhat hampered by having no clue what the supported set of platforms is. I'm pretty sure we support at least: - various recent Linux distributions - FreeBSD 6.x (maybe as far back as 4.x) - OS X - NetBSD and OpenBSD, but no idea which versions - Solaris >= 2.8 - AIX 5.3 and I suspect most of those have somebody building them regularly enough that breakages are caught. I have no idea what people are using beyond that, and how quickly they might catch a portability breakage. -Peff -- 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
