'sb/filenames-with-dashes'On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 6:38 PM Ævar Arnfjörð
Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Move a 37 line for-loop mess out of "install" and into a helper
> script. This started out fairly innocent but over the years has grown
> into a hard-to-maintain monster, and my recent ad874608d8 ("Makefile:
> optionally symlink libexec/git-core binaries to bin/git", 2018-03-13)
> certainly didn't help.
>
> The shell code is ported pretty much as-is (with getopts added), it'll
> be fixed & prettified in subsequent commits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>
> ---
> install_programs | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Pure nitpick: Earlier this year, Stefan made an effort[1] to eradicate
filenames with underscores and replace them with hyphenated filenames.
Perhaps name this "install-programs", instead.
[1]: sb/filenames-with-dashes
> diff --git a/install_programs b/install_programs
> @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
> +while test $# != 0
> +do
> + case "$1" in
> + --X=*)
> + X="${1#--X=}"
> + ;;
> + --RM=*)
> + RM="${1#--RM=}"
> + ;;
> + --bindir=*)
> + bindir="${1#--bindir=}"
> + ;;
Is the intention that the user might have X, RM, 'bindir', etc.
already in the environment, and the switches in this script merely
override those values? Or is the intention that X, RM, 'bindir, etc.
should all start out unset? If the latter, perhaps start the script
with an initialization block which clears all these variables first:
X=
RM=
bindir=
...
