Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: May 2, 2005, 16:14 UTC
Message-ID: <200505021614.j42GEufG008441@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <42764C0C.8030604@tmr.com>

On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:49:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said:

> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:

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> > -#!/usr/bin/python
> > +#!/usr/bin/env python
> >  #
> >  # mercurial - a minimal scalable distributed SCM
> >  # v0.4b "oedipa maas"
> 
> Could you explain why this is necessary or desirable? I looked at what 
> env does, and I am missing the point of duplicating bash normal 
> behaviour regarding definition of per-process environment entries.

Most likely, his python lives elsewhere than /usr/bin, and the 'env' call results in causing a walk across $PATH to find it....

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