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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost•net>
To: Josef Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek•net>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guilt: add option guilt.diffstat
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:18:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812130018.56061.bss03@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081213044357.GD15407@josefsipek.net>

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On Friday 2008 December 12 22:43:57 Josef Jeff Sipek wrote:
>> +		if [ -n "$5" -o "x$diffstat" = "x1" ]; then
>
>Why the 'x' thing? I've seen it is some scripts before, but I can't think of
>a reason to use it if the variable is surrounded in quotation marks.

'[' or test see the arguments after they are unquoted (normally).  So, 
if "$diffstat" is "-n" it might try and do the -n test, rather than the = 
test.

It could be re-written as "1" == "${diffstat}" instead to avoid the x, but 
it's not a big deal (to me).  That also looks backwards to a lot of people.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-13  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-13  2:14 [PATCH] guilt: add option guilt.diffstat Wu Fengguang
2008-12-13  4:43 ` Josef Jeff Sipek
2008-12-13  6:18   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]
2008-12-13  6:23     ` Josef Jeff Sipek
2008-12-13 13:17   ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-18 11:26     ` [PATCH][RESEND] " Wu Fengguang
2008-12-18 14:39       ` Josef Jeff Sipek
2008-12-19  0:08         ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-20  4:33       ` Josef Jeff Sipek

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