From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Cc: gitster <gitster@pobox.com>, peff <peff@peff.net>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make run-command.c honour SHELL_PATH
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:17:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120326181720.GG7599@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332768900-sup-4533@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>
Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from Jonathan Nieder's message of Sun Mar 25 21:11:48 -0400 2012:
[...]
>> at least in the short term
>> while we require a POSIX-style shell elsewhere in git.
>
> I'm unclear what you're meaning by this. Are you implying that the
> requirement for a POSIX-style shell should be relaxes to the point
> where things don't rely on that base set of functionality?
Currently git uses bash on Windows by necessity. I suspect we could
make a lot of people happy by dropping that dependency some day and
using cmd.exe or something like powershell in places the user provides
a script.
Context: [1]
Of course that's far in the future and not certain at all. ;-)
Ciao,
Jonathan
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164656/focus=164716
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-26 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-25 12:31 [PATCH 0/2] Make run-command.c honour SHELL_PATH Ben Walton
2012-03-25 12:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] run-command.c: Define SHELL_PATH macro for use in prepare_shell_cmd Ben Walton
2012-03-25 12:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: Set EXTRA_CPPFLAGS during the compilation of run-command Ben Walton
2012-03-26 1:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make run-command.c honour SHELL_PATH Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-26 13:38 ` Ben Walton
2012-03-26 18:12 ` Jeff King
2012-03-26 18:19 ` Ben Walton
2012-03-26 18:24 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 2:41 ` [PATCH] Use SHELL_PATH to fork commands in run_command.c:prepare_shell_cmd Ben Walton
2012-03-27 3:29 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 3:34 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 5:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-27 5:12 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 5:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-27 6:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-28 2:46 ` Ben Walton
2012-03-28 4:22 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 23:26 ` [PATCH] Use SHELL_PATH from build system " Ben Walton
2012-03-29 4:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-29 6:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
[not found] ` <1333073831-sup-5734@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>
2012-03-30 6:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-29 23:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 23:28 ` [PATCH] Use SHELL_PATH to fork commands " Ben Walton
2012-03-27 4:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-27 4:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-27 2:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make run-command.c honour SHELL_PATH Ben Walton
2012-03-26 18:17 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-03-26 18:08 ` Jeff King
2012-03-26 17:58 ` Jeff King
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