On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Many callsites run "sh -c $CMD" to run $CMD. We can make it > a little simpler for them by factoring out the munging of > argv. > > For simple cases with no arguments, this doesn't help much, but: > > 1. For cases with arguments, we save the caller from > having to build the appropriate shell snippet. > > 2. We can later optimize to avoid the shell when > there are no metacharacters in the program. > Nice. This could be helpful if we ever decide not to depend on a sh-compatible shell on Windows (since one isn't included by default no Windows, and installing msys/cygwin has some compatibility-issues with previous installations). -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html