Re: Bug report : bad filter-branch (OSX only)

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

... would behave incorrectly without "-r". I would be shocked if that ever
happens in real life, but I think it doesn't hurt to be careful.

Ahh, OK.  I overlooked the continued-line possibility.

$$ is always the pid of the main shell process,...

Thanks for straightening me out---I was too lazy to run strace ;-)

... But I can imagine a shell that is smart
enough to realize a fork is not required in this instance.

Yup.  I think that is a natural thing to optimize for implementors
of shells.

Thanks.