Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

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Eygene Ryabinkin [off-list ref] writes:

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That is, what does the shell say if you do this?

	case Ultra in
        Super)
        	false ;;
	Hyper)
        	true ;;
	esac &&
        echo case returned ok

It says 'case returned ok', so I will try to understand why it
works here and does not work in the 'while' construct.

What you actually need to do is

false
case Ultra in
   Super)
   	false ;;
Hyper)
   	true ;;
esac && echo case returned ok

AHHHHHH.

Is "case" supposed to be transparent?

Not that I would know.  It is basically a revival of the

false
if false then : ; fi || echo "this fails!?!"

bug that probably has been fixed by now.  For obvious reasons,
conditionals without a taken branch are considered to have an exit
code of 0.

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