Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"
From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <hidden>
Date: 2020-05-04 16:28:50
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2020-05-05 · Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2020-05-05 · Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" · Jeff King <hidden>
- 2020-05-05 · Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2020-05-04 · Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:07:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
-- >8 -- Subject: CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" The advice to use "$x" rather than "x" in arithmetric expansion was working around a dash bug fixed in 0.5.4. Even Debian oldstable has 0.5.7 these days.
that would be oldoldstable, oldstable is actually in 0.5.8 ;)
Helped-by: Danh Doan [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <redacted> Carlo