From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:52:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Weird behavior of shell variables in git aliases
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=h4Upus2x4MTXXEX=PSrp-4xhEpzifsGXKycf5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4o6wnlxm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.