Just like assigning a nonempty value, assigning an empty value to a
shell variable when calling a function produces non-portable behavior:
in some shells, the assignment lasts for the duration of the function
invocation, and in others, it persists after the function returns.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
/(?:\$\(seq|^\s*seq\b)/ and err 'seq is not portable (use test_seq)';
/\bgrep\b.*--file\b/ and err 'grep --file FILE is not portable (use grep -f FILE)';
/\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (use FOO=bar && export FOO)';
- /^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w+|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and
+ /^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w*|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and
err '"FOO=bar shell_func" assignment extends beyond "shell_func"';
$line = '';
# this resets our $. for each file