Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> It may be useful to know which shell Git was built to try to point to,
> in the event that shell-based Git commands are failing. $SHELL_PATH is
> set during the build and used to launch the manpage viewer, as well as
> by git-compat-util.h, and it's used during tests. 'git version
> --build-options' is encouraged for use in bug reports, so it makes sense
> to include this information there.
It probably makes sense to capture PERL_PATH, PYTHON_PATH,
TCLTK_PATH, and TCL_PATH, as they fall into exactly the same
category as this one.
> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> help.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> index a21487db77..190722fb0a 100644
> --- a/help.c
> +++ b/help.c
> @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> printf("no commit associated with this build\n");
> printf("sizeof-long: %d\n", (int)sizeof(long));
> printf("sizeof-size_t: %d\n", (int)sizeof(size_t));
> + printf("shell-path: %s\n", SHELL_PATH);
> /* NEEDSWORK: also save and output GIT-BUILD_OPTIONS? */
> }
> return 0;
