Re: [PATCH 0/4] contrib/subtree: general updates

Miles Bader [off-list ref] writes:

Paul Campbell [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

James and Michael's patches add if clauses that use the
bashism 'if []' rather than 'if test'.

"Bashism"...?  I dunno how portable is, but "[" is an old unix alias
for "test" ... it certainly predates bash...

Correct. [[ ... ]] is new and spelling out "test" indeed is more
traditionalist than [ ... ], but for contrib/subtree/ that does not
work with anything but bash, I do not think such a rewrite has much
merit in the first place.  Being consistently "bash script" (as
opposed to being old-style) is more appropriate for it.