Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 17:47, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:

+# Try to use libintl's gettext.sh, or fall back to English if we
+# can't.
+. gettext.sh
+
+if test $? -eq 0 && test -z "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS"
+then

It turns out that this doesn't actually work, and I can't find a
workaround. In Bash and Solaris's /bin/sh this executes until "dies
here". The problem is that I can't use the subshell trick, since the
gettext.sh inclusion has to be done in the current shell (I checked,
tests will fail).

    #!/bin/sh
    (. does-not-exist.sh)
    echo "A subshell made it! ret = $?"
    . does-not-exist.sh
  # dies here
    echo "A real shell made it! ret = $?"

Is there some clever shellscript trick that I'm missing, or will I
have to resort to modifying the file at `make' time for this to work
everywhere?