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IshKebab on Feb 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell

Why would you expect reliability and error checking in a shell implementation of git? It's clearly a mad bit of fun.

downerending on Feb 12, 2020 [–]

I wouldn't necessarily expect it in a "mad bit of fun", and I'm implicitly noting that that's what this is.

I completely require it in shell scripts in general. Good checking of errors is really a fundamental requirement of professional programming.

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