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Re: Weird behavior of shell variables in git aliases

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2011, 10:52 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 23:33, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> but it would penalize a properly written alias that uses "sh -c <it> -"
> trick itself by double forking, which is not very nice and I am unhappy
> about.
It would also be bizarre on Solaris where /bin/sh isn't a POSIX shell.
But we can substitute the relevant user-supplied shell during the build process.
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