Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" [off-list ref] writes:

On 8/2/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Non POSIX substitions such as ${parameter/pattern/string} and
${parameter:offset} are not to be used.  We do not want to
depend on bash.

There is in a test (t5300-pack-objects.sh) but I guess the
restrictions do not apply on tests.

That would have been an earlier mistake.  Keeping tests portable
is important, perhaps it might be of lessor importance but
still.