From 8e98b35f87532761f09101729715c2ec49e24ddf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 17:07:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: avoid empty list in shell for-loop The $strategy_opts variable contains a space-separated list of strategy options, each individually shell-quoted. To loop over each, we "unwrap" them by doing an eval like: eval ' for opt in '"$strategy_opts"' do ... done ' Note the quoting that means we expand $strategy_opts inline in the code to be evaluated (which is the right thing because we want the IFS-split and de-quoting). If the variable is empty, however, we ask the shell to eval the following code: for opt in do ... done without anything between "in" and "do". Most modern shells are happy to treat that like a noop, but reportedly ksh88 on AIX considers it a syntax error. So let's catch the case that the variable is empty and skip the eval altogether (since we know the loop would be a noop anyway). Reported-by: Armin Kunaschik Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git-rebase--interactive.sh | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index 4cde685b43..655ebaa471 100644 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ rewritten_pending="$state_dir"/rewritten-pending cr=$(printf "\015") strategy_args=${strategy:+--strategy=$strategy} +test -n "$strategy_opts" && eval ' for strategy_opt in '"$strategy_opts"' do -- 2.11.4.GIT