From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:25:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] git-p4: move to toplevel
Message-ID: <7vpqdh6wve.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120214190515.GB12072@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:40:04AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I do not think tilde in $PATH is expanded by exec*p family to begin with,
>> so it is not "dash" but POSIX, I would think.  It is bash that is harming
>> other programs, by trying to be more helpful, encouraging this user
>> mistake to add ~ literally on the PATH.
>
> Hmm. There is an interesting ramification for run-command's "use_shell"
> optimization....
> But if your shell handles PATH entries differently, then there is a
> difference.

Yeah, I agree; that is exactly what I meant by bash harming users by
trying to be more helpful.