Merge pull request #198 from ohspite/fix-git-version-parsing

[code/vcsh.git] / vcsh

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index 98e0acd3cd3356626e672035a4ebc2d5258168ba..de1b419f4ce57ee0d74233d4156358d418f3055a 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ commit() {
                echo "$VCSH_REPO_NAME: "
                GIT_DIR=$VCSH_REPO_D/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git; export GIT_DIR
                use
-               git commit --untracked-files=no --quiet
+               git commit --untracked-files=no --quiet $@
                VCSH_COMMAND_RETURN_CODE=$?
                echo
        done
@@ -476,14 +476,21 @@ write_gitignore() {
 
        use
        cd "$VCSH_BASE" || fatal "could not enter '$VCSH_BASE'" 11
+       local GIT_VERSION="$(git --version)"
+       local GIT_VERSION_MAJOR=$(echo $GIT_VERSION | sed -n 's/.* \([0-9]\)\..*/\1/p')
+       local GIT_VERSION_MINOR=$(echo $GIT_VERSION | sed -n 's/.* \([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\)\..*/\2/p')
        OLDIFS=$IFS
        IFS=$(printf '\n\t')
        gitignores=$(for file in $(git ls-files); do
-               while true; do
-                       echo "$file"; new=${file%/*}
-                       [ x"$file" = x"$new" ] && break
-                       file=$new
-               done;
+               if [ $GIT_VERSION_MAJOR -ge 2 -a $GIT_VERSION_MINOR -ge 7 ]; then
+                       echo "$file";
+               else
+                       while true; do
+                               echo "$file"; new=${file%/*}
+                               [ x"$file" = x"$new" ] && break
+                               file=$new
+                       done;
+               fi
        done | sort -u)
 
        # Contrary to GNU mktemp, mktemp on BSD/OSX requires a template for temp files