From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:04:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
Message-ID: <20100104070405.GE7785@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100104060646.GA14520@glandium.org>

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:06:46AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:

> Anyways, why not generate the hash-bang lines of the shell scripts from a
> Makefile variable that would be set to /usr/xpg4/bin/sh on Solaris and
> /bin/sh on others ?

We do that already (though we default it to /bin/bash). SANE_TOOL_PATH
is about picking up all the _other_ tools for use inside our shell
scripts, like non-crappy sed, grep, etc.

Brandon did some testing with ksh and sent a patch to default to the
stock ksh on Solaris and IRIX, which is probably saner than bash for a
default, but it seems to have gotten dropped:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/129830

-Peff