Hi Junio, On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Now, with the patch in question (without the follow-up, which I would > > like to ask you to ignore, just like you did so far), Git would not > > figure out that your script calls PuTTY eventually. The work-around? > > Easy: > > > > DUMMY=/plink.exe /path/to/junio-is-a-superstar.sh > > Think about how you would explain that to an end-user in our document? > You'll need to explain how exactly the auto-detection works, so that the > user can "exploit" the loophole to do that. And what maintenance burden > does it add when auto-detection is updated? Fine, you do not like it. Saying so (instead of asking me questions) would have been helpful. > I think I know you well enough that you know well enough that it is too > ugly to live, and I suspect that the above is a tongue-in-cheek "arguing > for the sake of argument" and would not need a serious response, but > just in case... It was not tongue-in-cheek, I was being serious. > Yes. Here is what comes on an obvious clean-up patch (which will be > sent as a follow-up to this message). I'd much rather prefer https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1030 than your patch. Ciao, Johannes