On 2019-08-08 at 09:37:33, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:56:14PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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Subject: [PATCH] t0000: reword comments for "local" test

Commit 01d3a526ad (t0000: check whether the shell supports the "local"
keyword, 2017-10-26) added a test to gather data on whether people run
the test suite with shells that don't support "local".

After almost two years, nobody has complained, and several other uses
have cropped up in test-lib-functions.sh. Let's declare it acceptable to
use.

I'm also in favor of this patch. To my knowledge, the only FLOSS
POSIX-compliant shell that doesn't support "local" is AT&T ksh, so there
are a lot of alternatives that folks have (bash, dash, posh, zsh, mksh,
pdksh, busybox sh, etc.) in case they have a less capable shell.
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