Re: [PATCH 7/6] t0021: use $SHELL_PATH for the filter script

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:50:39PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> >>On Windows, we need the shbang line to correctly invoke shell scripts via
> >>a POSIX shell, except when the script is invoked via 'sh -c' because
> >>sh (a bash) does "the right thing". Since nowadays the clean and smudge
> >>filters are not always invoked via 'sh -c' anymore, we have to mark the
> >>the one in t0021-conversion with #!$SHELL_PATH.
> >
> >Hrm. This does mean we might be breaking users who have helper scripts
> >in a similar state to those in the test suite...
> 
> Not helper scripts in general, but only clean and smudge filters,
> because these have been invoked with "sh -c" so far. Everything else,
> that was not run via "sh -c", but now is, is safe.

I converted more than that; see my 2/6. It is also the pager, the
imap-send tunnel helper, and external merge helpers. Not the editor,
since it already had the no-metacharacters optimization (though it, too,
could be affected if we implement your DWIM trick instead of the
metacharacter thing).

So I think we need to make a conscious decision that this is an
acceptable change of behavior (and I am totally fine with the change
happening -- I just want to be clear about the extent of what is being
changed).

-Peff
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