From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:41:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] use @@PERL@@ in built scripts
Message-ID: <xmqqeh73euex.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131029011959.GA27738@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Several of the built shell commands invoke a bare "perl" to
> perform some one-liners. This will use the first perl in the
> PATH rather than the one specified by the user's SHELL_PATH.
> We are not asking these perl invocations to do anything
> exotic, so typically any old system perl will do; however,
> in some cases the system perl may have unexpected behavior
> (e.g., by handling line endings differently). We should err
> on the side of using the perl the user pointed us to.

Thanks; this makes sense.