CodingGuidelines: avoid "test <cond> -a/-o <cond>"
The construct is error-prone; "test" being built-in in most modern shells, the reason to avoid "test <cond> && test <cond>" spawning one extra process by using a single "test <cond> -a <cond>" no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in
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po/README.
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- We do not write our "test" command with "-a" and "-o" and use "&&"
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or "||" to concatenate multiple "test" commands instead, because
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the use of "-a/-o" is often error-prone. E.g.
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test -n "$x" -a "$a" = "$b"
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is buggy and breaks when $x is "=", but
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test -n "$x" && test "$a" = "$b"
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does not have such a problem.
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For C programs:
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- We use tabs to indent, and interpret tabs as taking up to
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