doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite
The scripted Porcelain commands do not allow use of "local" because it is not universally supported, but we use it liberally in our test scripts, which means some POSIX compliant shells (like "ksh93") can not be used to run our tests. Document the status quo, to help the next person who gets perplexed seeing our tests fail. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Even though "local" is not part of POSIX, we make heavy use of it
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in our test suite. We do not use it in scripted Porcelains, and
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hopefully nobody starts using "local" before they are reimplemented
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in C ;-)
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hopefully nobody starts using "local" before all shells that matter
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support it (notably, ksh from AT&T Research does not support it yet).
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- Some versions of shell do not understand "export variable=value",
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so we write "variable=value" and then "export variable" on two
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