Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Nov 10, 2007, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID: <87r6ixag31.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x5bgl04.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>       /bin/sh on Solaris does not count as you can configure
>       SHELL_PATH to point at xpg4 shell or ksh on that platform.

That's likely to be a rather confusing point for many people trying to install however (solaris is rather common), unless git somehow arranges for the right thing to happen automatically, or at least spits out a big noticeable warning message at install time...

-Miles

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