Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwer...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 21:31 +0100, Simon vanaf Telefoon wrote: >> Hi all, sorry for top posting :-( blame the phone and k9 >> >> I have a small issue with the use of test instead of [ >> If that only applies to this section of the entire file. >> Coding style has some value. >> >> Combining nested ifs with && seems harmless enough, though should be >> well tested. >> >> Cheers >> Simon >> > > Ah, indeed, I looked around a bit more, and as per > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls it seems like 'test' is bad to use > with multiple &&'s anyways.
I think you are misreading a suggestion that is somewhat misguided (yes "[ <condition> && <another> ]" does not make sense, but that is not applicable to "test <conditon> && test <another>"); ignore it. It is fine to write "test <condition> && test <another>" and that works portably to even pre-posix systems. But the existing code the patch touches favors [] over test consistently; that alone is a good reason to stick with [] in _this_ script, even though it is against Git's overall shell script style. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
