From 822f7c7349d61f6075961ce42c1bd1a85cf999e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kastrup Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:42:08 +0200 Subject: Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom A lot of shell scripts contained stuff starting with while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac and similar. I consider breaking out of the condition instead of the body od the loop ugly, and the implied "true" value of the non-matching case is not really obvious to humans at first glance. It happens not to be obvious to some BSD shells, either, but that's because they are not POSIX-compliant. In most cases, this has been replaced by a straight condition using "test". "case" has the advantage of being faster than "test" on vintage shells where "test" is not a builtin. Since none of them is likely to run the git scripts, anyway, the added readability should be worth the change. A few loops have had their termination condition expressed differently. Signed-off-by: David Kastrup Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git-mergetool.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'git-mergetool.sh') diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh index 47a80553ad..a0e44f71c4 100755 --- a/git-mergetool.sh +++ b/git-mergetool.sh @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ merge_file () { cleanup_temp_files } -while case $# in 0) break ;; esac +while test $# != 0 do case "$1" in -t|--tool*) -- cgit v1.2.3