Eric Wong wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Why can't git use e.g. posix_spawn to avoid this? > > posix_spawn does not support chdir, and it seems we run non-git > commands so no using "git -C" for those. On the other hand, a number of the non-git commands we run are in a shell. At the cost of a wasted shell process, other commands can be spawned using posix_spawn by passing the chosen directory and command to sh -c 'cd "$1" && shift && exec "$@"' - [...] > I posted some notes about it last year: > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20160629200142.GA17878@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks for these notes. Sincerely, Jonathan