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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] SubmittingPatches: clarify 'git-contacts' location
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Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> writes:

>> In the context of _this_ document where the user is working on _git_
>> project towards submitting patches to _us_, it is far simpler to
>> drop the above paragraph and tell them how to run the script in
>> contrib/, e.g.
>>
>>     $ perl contrib/contacts/git-contacts <args>...
>>
>> without hinting there is anything platform/distro specific, and
>> instead to have them all work from our sources.
>
> Indeed. One small change is that the script already has the execute bit
> set so I can drop `perl` as $0 (the execute bit is removed when it is
> copied into /usr/share/... on my system).

We want to be a bit careful here, though.

The script begins with "#!/usr/bin/perl", but on some systems ther
eis no such command (but /usr/local/bin is on user's PATH and perl
exists there).