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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make run-command.c honour SHELL_PATH
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:17:20 -0500
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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