From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
To: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: quick bare clones taking longer?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:55:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbqgsibrr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070510T224750-851@post.gmane.org> (Dan Nicholson's message of "Thu, 10 May 2007 20:52:15 +0000 (UTC)")
Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail•com> writes:
> In fact, all POSIX shells should support `cd -P' according to the spec, so it
> should probably just be used directly instead of hoping that /bin/pwd exists.
>
> (cd -P "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2>/dev/null
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cd.html
Yes but no ;-). I've said this a few times on the list in the
past, but I'll repeat it again for new people.
We reject something whose portability in question by saying
"It's not _even in_ POSIX". We on the other hand try to refrain
from saying "POSIX says you are supposed to have it, so screw
people that are not fully POSIX".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 9:09 quick bare clones taking longer? David Miller
2007-05-09 11:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 15:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 20:06 ` David Miller
2007-05-09 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 22:02 ` David Miller
2007-05-09 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 23:23 ` David Miller
2007-05-09 23:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 0:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 0:29 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 8:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-10 8:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 8:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-10 15:38 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-05-12 15:25 ` Win32 version, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-12 15:48 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-05-10 8:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-10 20:52 ` Dan Nicholson
2007-05-10 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-05-10 22:08 ` Dan Nicholson
2007-05-10 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 17:04 ` Andy Whitcroft
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