The shell used when using the -x option is the one pointed to by the SHELL_PATH constant at build time. This erroneous statement in the documentation sent me on a 10 minute wild goose chase wondering why my $SHELL was pointing to /bin/bash and my /bin/sh to dash and git was using dash and not bash. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 25516c45d8b8..08cf52daf39e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ non-0 status) to give you an opportunity to fix the problem. You can continue with `git rebase --continue`. The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one specified -in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can +by the build-time SHELL_PATH variable, usually /bin/sh), so you can use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from the root of the working tree. -- 2.34.1