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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Cc: peff@peff.net, gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use SHELL_PATH to fork commands in run_command.c:prepare_shell_cmd
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:49:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327044957.GB22547@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327042620.GA22547@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

[...]
> 	The cause: that test (and some subsequent ones) sets the pager

	The cause: that test and some subsequent ones set the pager ...

(The text has subject/verb agreement problems if the reader chooses to
follow the parentheses.  Removing parens, s/sets/set to spare the reader
the choice.)

> 	command used by git log to "sed s/^/foo:/ >actual" which is fine
> 	in a POSIX-compliant sh, but not in Solaris' sh.  The

	                   ... to "sed s/^/foo:/ >actual", which is fine
	in a POSIX-compliant sh but not in Solaris's sh.

(missing comma before "which"; extra comma before "but").

[...]
> 	a. instead of launching a shell on its own, run_command could
> 	   call system() or popen().  This launches a POSIX shell on
> 	   Solaris as long as _POSIX_SOURCE is defined.

Git uses _XOPEN_SOURCE so it's clearer to say that instead.

[...]
> 	c. the run_command machinery could use the same SHELL_PATH
> 	   shell that is used by the git filter-branch script and in
> 	   all script's #! lines.

Punctuation: script's should be scripts'.

Sorry for the noise.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27  4:50 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 [this message]
2012-03-27  2:45           ` [PATCH 0/2] Make run-command.c honour SHELL_PATH Ben Walton
2012-03-26 18:17     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-26 18:08   ` Jeff King
2012-03-26 17:58 ` Jeff King

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