On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Paul Campbell <pcampb...@kemitix.net> writes:
>>> James and Michael's patches add if clauses that use the
>>> bashism 'if []' rather than 'if test'.
>>
>> "Bashism"...?  I dunno how portable is, but "[" is an old unix alias
>> for "test" ... it certainly predates bash...
>
> Correct. [[ ... ]] is new and spelling out "test" indeed is more
> traditionalist than [ ... ], but for contrib/subtree/ that does not
> work with anything but bash, I do not think such a rewrite has much
> merit in the first place.  Being consistently "bash script" (as
> opposed to being old-style) is more appropriate for it.
>
>

Does no-one have any other comments about these patches?

-- 
Paul [W] Campbell
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