From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:56:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9100: fix breakage when SHELL_PATH is not /bin/sh
Message-ID: <20160208195630.GB30693@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh6v7zu0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:43:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > But then what is write_script buying us?
> 
> The correct way to write a script for a specific interpreter is to
> give a second parameter to write_script, i.e.
> 
> 		write_script exec.sh /bin/sh </dev/null &&
> 
> and the answer to the question is "it will save us one line".

At the cost of a useless "cat" invocation, though. :)

> The version in 'master' that does
> 
>                 echo "#!/bin/sh" >exec.sh &&
>                 chmod +x exec.sh &&
> 
> should be equivalent, so dropping that hunk from the patch is the
> right resolution perhaps?

Yeah, but I still don't understand why the original did not work on
Windows, once all the other hunks from bcb11f1 are applied.

-Peff