From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:21:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [PATCH/RFC] alias: use run_command api to execute aliases
Message-ID: <7v8vyw7c52.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1101071551190.15247@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> But I'm kind of of two minds here myself, but for a slightly different 
>> reason: I think Git for Windows SHOULD use cmd.exe to execute scripts. 
>> We should be able to lose the msys-environment and still have the basic 
>> functionality working. In that sense, this is a step in the wrong 
>> direction. But I'd rather have all code use the same code-path to 
>> execute scripts, and make a bit switch to cmd.exe together with porting 
>> all supplied scripts to batch-files some time in the future.
>
> Okay, strike my objections, I agree now. Feel free to apply!

FWIW, I agree with Erik's reasoning, too.
Thanks, both.