From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:18:41 GMT Subject: Re: MinGW binary installer available Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200702082215.50389.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Hi, On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > torsdag 08 februari 2007 09:09 skrev Johannes Sixt: > > > > @echo off > > rem () { :; } ; : \ > > sh %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > > rem ; : \ > > exit /B %ERRORLEVEL% > > > > > > in place of the usual "#!/bin/sh". It requires you to have a command > > named @echo.exe in the path that is a noop. Also, it is limited to 9 > > command line arguments. > > > > What a hack! (*) > > Yes... I suggest you use %* to pass on all arguments. It works with more > than 10 arguemtns, including quoted arguemnts (presumably whatever limit > windows has) ... but probably breaks down on Windows 98, and maybe on ME, too, and just maybe on XP pre-SP1 with full moon, unless you end the life of a black goat before trying that. Frankly, I'd rather stay away from such hackeries. For now, we can ship bash, perl and Tcl/Tk with Git, as well as git-gui, can't we? After all, Windows users are used to bloatware. Then, we just hide the command line from them! Ciao, Dscho