On 09/22/2012 07:47 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 03:03:58PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> On 09/21/2012 10:49 PM, Jeff King wrote: >>> >>> Oh. It sounds like setting $SHELL to zsh is really the problem, then. If >>> it is not Bourne-compatible when called as "zsh", then it really should >>> be called in a way that turns on compatibility mode (bash will do this >>> when called as "sh", but you can also do it with "bash --posix"). >>> >> AFAIK, if Zsh is called as "sh", it too will run in Bourne compatibility >> mode; not sure how to force this compatibility from the command line though >> (albeit I'd guess there is some way to do so). >> [...] > > Thanks for digging. I think this case, though, is that we were simply > using the wrong variable ($SHELL instead of $SHELL_PATH). Your > workarounds would help if somebody put zsh into $SHELL_PATH, but > fundamentally that is not a sane thing to be doing, so I think we can > just consider doing so user error and not bother working around it. > FWIW, I agree. Best regards, Stefano -- 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