Subject: Re: t5801-remote-helpers.sh fails

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:20:14 +0100

On 11/10/2012 08:15 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> on peff/pu t5801 fails, the error is in git-remote-testgit, please see below.
>>
>> That's on my Mac OS X box.
>>
>> I haven't digged further into the test case, but it looks as if
>> "[-+]A  make NAMEs associative arrays"
>> is not supported on this version of bash.
>> /Torsten
>>
>>
>> /Users/tb/projects/git/git.peff/git-remote-testgit: line 64: declare: -A: invalid option
>> declare: usage: declare [-afFirtx] [-p] [name[=value] ...]
>> /Users/tb/projects/git/git.peff/git-remote-testgit: line 66: refs/heads/master: division by 0 (error token is "/master")
>> error: fast-export died of signal 13
>> fatal: Error while running fast-export
>
> What is your bash --version?
>
  bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

On the other hand, Documentation/CodingGuidelines says:
   - No shell arrays.

Could we use perl to have arrays?

/Torsten