From: Junio C Hamano <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:15
Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:
ba959de (git-difftool: allow skipping file by typing 'n' at prompt, 2011-10-08)
introduced shell code like
$((foo; bar) | baz)
which some shells (e.g. bash, dash) interpret as an unfinished arithmetic
evaluation $(( expr )).
Ahh, thanks, I should have caught this. I recall I rewrote a similar one
to $( (command; command) | command ) more than once before.