Linus Arver <linusa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> In the context of _this_ document where the user is working on _git_ >> project towards submitting patches to _us_, it is far simpler to >> drop the above paragraph and tell them how to run the script in >> contrib/, e.g. >> >> $ perl contrib/contacts/git-contacts <args>... >> >> without hinting there is anything platform/distro specific, and >> instead to have them all work from our sources. > > Indeed. One small change is that the script already has the execute bit > set so I can drop `perl` as $0 (the execute bit is removed when it is > copied into /usr/share/... on my system). We want to be a bit careful here, though. The script begins with "#!/usr/bin/perl", but on some systems ther eis no such command (but /usr/local/bin is on user's PATH and perl exists there).
