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With one big exception, git-prompt.sh should now be both almost posix
compliant, and also compatible with most (posix-ish) shells.
That exception is the use of "local" vars in functions, which happens
extensively in the current code, and is not simple to replace with
posix compliant code (but also not impossible).
Luckily, almost all shells support "local" as used by the current
code, with the notable exception of ksh93[u+m], but also the Schily
minimal posix sh (pbosh), and yash in posix mode.
See assessment below that "local" is likely the only blocker in those.
So except mainly ksh93, git-prompt.sh now works in most shells:
- bash, zsh, dash since at least 0.5.8, free/net bsd sh, busybox-ash,
mksh, openbsd sh, pdksh(!), Schily extended Bourne sh (bosh), yash.
which is quite nice.
As an anecdote, replacing the 1st line in __git_ps1() (local exit=$?)
with these 2 makes it work in all tested shells, even without "local":
# handles only 0/1 args for simplicity. needs +5 LOC for any $#
__git_e=$?; local exit="$__git_e" 2>/dev/null ||
{(eval 'local() { export "$@"; }'; __git_ps1 "$@"); return "$__git_e"; }
Explanation:
If the shell doesn't have the command "local", define our own
function "local" which instead does plain (global) assignents.
Then use __git_ps1 in a subshell to not clober the caller's vars.
This happens to work because currently there are no name conflicts
(shadow) at the code, initial value is not assumed (i.e. always
doing either 'local x=...' or 'local x;... x=...'), and assigned
initial values are quoted (local x="$y"), preventing word split and
glob expansion (i.e. assignment context is not assumed).
The last two (always init, quote values) seem to be enough to use
"local" portably if supported, and otherwise shells indeed differ.
Uses "eval", else shells with "local" may reject it during parsing.
We don't need "export", but it's smaller than writing our own loop.
While cute, this approach is not really sustainable because all the
vars become global, which is hard to maintain without conflicts
(but hey, it currently has no conflicts - without even trying...).
However, regardless of being an anecdote, it provides some support to
the assessment that "local" is the only blocker in those shells.
Signed-off-by: Avi Halachmi (:avih) <avihpit@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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README
Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there is general interest (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc