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Merge branch 'jc/document-use-of-local' into maint-2.46
Doc update. * jc/document-use-of-local: doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite
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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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