From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:13:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug report : bad filter-branch (OSX only)
Message-ID: <xmqqegn26eot.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150429164315.GA26682@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... would behave incorrectly without "-r". I would be shocked if that ever
> happens in real life, but I think it doesn't hurt to be careful.

Ahh, OK.  I overlooked the continued-line possibility.

> $$ is always the pid of the main shell process,...

Thanks for straightening me out---I was too lazy to run strace ;-)

> ... But I can imagine a shell that is smart
> enough to realize a fork is not required in this instance.

Yup.  I think that is a natural thing to optimize for implementors
of shells.

Thanks.