From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0300-credentials: Word around a solaris /bin/sh bug
Message-ID: <7vr4ycu3ty.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120202200240.GC9246@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I wonder if a better solution is to use a known-good shell instead of
> trying to work around problems in a bogus shell.

Yeah, I think that is a better approach.

What prevents us from doing 's|^#! */bin/sh|$#$SHELL_PATH|' on everything
in t/ directory (I am not suggesting to do this. I just want to know if
there is a reason we want hardcoded "#!/bin/sh" for some instances).