Andrew Wong [off-list ref] writes:
On 08/04/2011 03:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
How about removing the unnecessary negation from the logic and directly
ask what we really want to know?
That is, "Do we have a line that is _not_ comment?"
has_action () {
sane_grep -v -e '^#' -e '^[ ]*$' "$1" >/dev/null
}
How about also including comments that begins with spaces? i.e.
Not interested.
It would be _clear_ if you inserted extra space before '#'; Noe's issue is
that it is not clear if you have extra space on a blank line, which I am a
bit more sympathetic.