[m-dev.] for review: get cvs to check log messages

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-Nov-2000, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 09-Nov-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > +if grep '<overview or general description of changes>' $1 ||
> > +   grep '<directory>/<file>:' $1 ||
> > +   grep '<detailed description of changes>' $1
> > +then
> 
> Don't you have to put a slash before the line continuations?

No.  If the line ends in "||" or "&&" then you don't need line
continuations.

I don't have a copy of the POSIX sh spec, unfortunately, but I'm
pretty sure that it allows this -- every sh that I've used does.

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