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author | Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> | 2024-07-27 01:35:09 -0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-07-26 22:49:40 -0700 |
commit | 7b9e54714a1c0b6f284cc7d8241e9ea25d149476 (patch) | |
tree | d60c7b15b16d8ad7110f0e869ae11fffcb7d624d /builtin/commit.c | |
parent | 7bd0cd0e7b29da382fcf2821c1bf087190ab2ffe (diff) |
check-non-portable-shell: improve `VAR=val shell-func` detection
The behavior of a one-shot environment variable assignment of the form
"VAR=val cmd" is unspecified according to POSIX when "cmd" is a shell
function. Indeed the behavior differs between shell implementations and
even different versions of the same shell, thus should be avoided.
As such, check-non-portable-shell.pl warns when it detects such usage.
However, a limitation of the check is that it only detects such
invocations when variable assignment (i.e. `VAR=val`) is the first thing
on the line. Thus, it can easily be fooled by an invocation such as:
echo X | VAR=val shell-func
Address this shortcoming by loosening the check so that the variable
assignment can be recognized even when not at the beginning of the line.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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