Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
> Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> There also are existing instances of "useless ;" that would want to
>>> be cleaned up regardless of portability issues.
>> Unfortunately it seems to be required. Travis CI generates a shell script
>> out of the yml file and I think they don't respect newlines or something...
>
> If they squash all the lines into a single long line before
> executing, these semicolons do indeed become necessary (we have to
> write a logical single line shell script in our Makefiles with ';',
> and I'd imagine Travis's scriptlets are done similarly).
>
> Thanks.
... but the above does not quite explain it. The newlines are
mostly honoured as logical end-of-line in existing .travis.yml e.g.
we do not see a semicolon before "pushd".
case "${TRAVIS_OS_NAME:-linux}" in
linux)
mkdir --parents custom/p4
pushd custom/p4
...
esac;
echo "$(tput setaf 6)Perforce Server Version$(tput sgr0)";
...
everything outside the big "case/esac" seems to have ';' in the
current incarnation of the script.
Puzzled...
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