Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

quoted text
> I do not doubt that "while case $# in 0) break ;; esac" does not
> work for your shell.  But I think the above comment is grossly
> misleading.

Personally, I find this idiom distasteful.

I'd do either
while case $# in 0) false ;; *) true esac

or, more likely 
while : do case $# in 0) break;; esac

But doing a break inside of the while _condition_ rather than the body
just feels wrong to me.

-- 
David Kastrup

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