On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 12:42:44PM +0100, Clemens Buchacher wrote: > It feels natural for a user to view git commands as monolithic > commands with a single thread of execution. If the parent git > command dies, it should therefore clean up its child processes as > well. So enable the cleanup mechanism by default. I'm not sure this is a good idea. run_command is used in ~70 places in git, and I'm sure at least one of them is going to be unhappy (I see you found one in credential-cache, but how many others are there). I'd rather be conservative and leave the default the same, and then switch over callsites that make sense. -Peff PS I thought this would certainly break the pager, since it should outlast us after we finish producing output. But I think at one point I switched the pager invocation so that the git wrapper lives and waits until the pager dies. -- 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