Re: [PATCH] perl shebangs: Use /usr/bin/env, not /usr/bin/perl

Ævar> Change the Perl Git utilities to use #!/usr/bin/env perl as a shebang Ævar> instead of #!/usr/bin/perl. This makes e.g. git-send-email work if Ævar> your personal perl has Net::SMTP::SSL, but your system perl Ævar> doesn't.

Not a good idea in general.

Ævar> With this change all the code in Git that uses a shebang now uses Ævar> /usr/bin/env, except those things that use /bin/sh and /bin/bash. All Ævar> the Python code already used it, and some of the Perl code.

Sorry I didn't catch this earlier then.

I often have an "experimental" Perl earlier in my path than the "official" Perl. This would mean that I'd get different behaviors running git from the command line than I would from automated tools, and it would be relatively confusing.

The official Perl should be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, and that's the one you should use with Git. *Or*, give the installer a knob to configure.

But please don't use env. Heck, some systems might not even *have* env. And some systems have it in /bin and not /usr/bin. Don't ruin portablity at this point, please.