Hi Junio, Marc.
On 12/07/2012 10:08 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com> writes:
>
>> It's FreeBSD 7.2, which I know is an obsolete version but I'm not able to
>> upgrade the machine. I believe FreeBSD's sh is, or is derived from, dash.
>
> Finally. Yes, as you suspected, I am perfectly fine to explicitly
> set IFS to the default values.
>
> I wanted to have specific names to write in the commit log message,
> in-code comments and possibly release notes. That way, people can
> decide if the issue affects them and they should upgrade once the
> fix is made.
>
The Autoconf manual suggests against unsetting IFS instead of resetting
it to the default sequence for yet another reason: if IFS is unset, code
that tries to save and restore its value will incorrectly reset it to an
empty value, thus disabling field splitting:
unset IFS
# default separators used for field splitting
# ...
saved_IFS=$IFS
IFS=:
# code using the new IFS
IFS=$saved_IFS
# no field splitting performed from now on!
Not sure how this is relevant for the Git codebase, but maybe it is
something worth reporting in the commit message of a proposed patch.
Regards,
Stefano
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