Hi Peff, On 2015-06-26 18:27, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:16:20AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > FYI, this ended up biting me today. We have some integration tests that >> > make sure we can clone over putty, and we wrap plink in a >> > "plink-wrapper.sh" script that tweaks a few extra options. That used to >> > match under the old scheme, but not the new. It would also match if we >> > looked for "plink" anywhere in the basename (but not in leading >> > directories). >> >> So this was a minor regression? ;-) > > Yes. :) > >> > I was able to work around it pretty easily by changing our test setup, >> > but I thought I would include it here as a data point. It's probably not >> > that representative of real-world users. >> >> I'd imagine that "/usr/local/github/wrapped/bin/plink" may be a more >> appropriate name to install that wrapper as than "plink-wrapper.sh", >> but then people would need to think how to help that wrapper find >> the real plink, so... > > It's the test suite for the server side of our git infrastructure, so > nothing gets installed. It's more like: > > export GIT_SSH=$PROJECT_ROOT/test/plink-wrapper.sh > export REAL_PLINK=$PROJECT_ROOT/vendor/putty/plink > git clone localhost:foo.git > > and the wrapper knows to chain to $REAL_PLINK. So it was actually pretty > easy to swap, without any hacks to avoid recursing to ourselves in the > $PATH. > > I doubt it is a problem for most people, because I don't imagine they > are writing test suites for git-related software. Sorry to be so unavailable... day-job and Git for Windows[*1*], what can I say. Would it help you if we detected ^plink[^a-zA-Z]? Ciao, Dscho Footnote *1*: took me friggin' 9 1/2 hours to figure this one out: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/pull/275 -- 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