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[PATCH v2] rebase: Fix documentation about used shell in -x

From
NBNikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2024, 08:53 UTC
Message-ID
<20240117085347.948960-1-nik.borisov@suse.com>

The shell used when using the -x option is erroneously documented to be the one pointed to by the $SHELL environmental variable. This was true when rebase was implemented as a shell script but this is no longer true.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
---
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 25516c45d8b8..2cd55aedc0f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -963,10 +963,9 @@ The interactive rebase will stop when a command fails (i.e. exits with
 non-0 status) to give you an opportunity to fix the problem. You can
 continue with `git rebase --continue`.

-The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one specified
-in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
-use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from
-the root of the working tree.
+The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the default one, usually
+/bin/sh), so you can use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command
+is run from the root of the working tree.

 ----------------------------------
 $ git rebase -i --exec "make test"
--
2.34.1
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