Just like assigning a nonempty value, assigning an empty value to a
shell variable when calling a function produces non-portable behavior:
in some shells, the assignment lasts for the duration of the function
invocation, and in others, it persists after the function returns.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
If it would be useful for me to send a copy of the "Enable protocol v2
by default" series rebased on top of this, let me know.

Thanks again for catching it.

Sincerely,
Jonathan

 t/check-non-portable-shell.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
index 38bfeebd88..fd3303552b 100755
--- a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
+++ b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ sub err {
 	/(?:\$\(seq|^\s*seq\b)/ and err 'seq is not portable (use test_seq)';
 	/\bgrep\b.*--file\b/ and err 'grep --file FILE is not portable (use grep -f FILE)';
 	/\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (use FOO=bar && export FOO)';
-	/^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w+|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and
+	/^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w*|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and
 		err '"FOO=bar shell_func" assignment extends beyond "shell_func"';
 	$line = '';
 	# this resets our $. for each file

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