Re: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash: declare -g is not portable

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Torsten Bögershausen [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

After running t9902-completion.sh on Mac OS I got a failure
in this style:

Sorry I was new with this bash thingy. Jeff already answered this (and
I will fix it in the re-roll) but just for my own information, what
bash version is shipped with Mac OS?

The MacOS bash is very old; note the copyright date:

    % /bin/bash --version
    GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16)
    Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

A recent bash installed manually (not from Apple):

    % /usr/local/bin/bash --version
    GNU bash, version 4.4.18(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0)
    Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.