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Re: [PATCH] git-grep: convert from bash to sh

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:15


On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Timo Hirvonen wrote:
sh does not support arrays so we have to use eval instead.
This seems horribly broken.

If I'm not mistaken, this breaks

	git grep "it's a happy coincidence"

badly. I didn't test, just looking at the patch.

Dammit, I'd rather depend on "bash"/"ksh" than have a broken "git grep".

Tell people to get a real shell.

		Linus
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