Ian Wienand <iwienand@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:09:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> So with this applied on top of the topic, 'seen' does pass with >> SHELL_PATH set to say /bin/dash, but this still fails CI jobs on >> Windows. > > Sigh, it looks like windows uses prepare_shell_cmd() instead. I think > it's still probably valid to dump the full command there for the same > reasons, which I'll add in v4. Ahh, it's the large conditional compilation in start_command(). On non-Windows side, we just do if (prepare_cmd(&argv, cmd) < 0) { failed_errno = errno; ... goto end_of_spawn; } ... pipe(), fork(), and exec() ... but on Windows side, we have if (cmd->git_cmd) cmd->args.v = prepare_git_cmd(&nargv, sargv); else if (cmd->use_shell) cmd->args.v = prepare_shell_cmd(&nargv, sargv); cmd->pid = mingw_spawnvpe(cmd->args.v[0], cmd->args.v, (char**) cmd->env.v, cmd->dir, fhin, fhout, fherr); And the thing is, prepare_cmd() already has if (cmd->git_cmd) { prepare_git_cmd(out, cmd->args.v); } else if (cmd->use_shell) { prepare_shell_cmd(out, cmd->args.v); } else { strvec_pushv(out, cmd->args.v); } I am wondering (and not suggesting to do this as a part of this series, but to decide if we should leave a left-over-bits note here) if the Windows side can be updated to also use prepare_cmd(). Do folks a lot more familiar with Windows than I (cc'ed j6t and dscho) have comments on this? Anyway. If you unconditionally add the printf's to both prepare_cmd() and prepare_shell_cmd(), you'll see two printf output on a non-Windows platform if we are spawning a shell cmd. It appears that the best place to "show the prepared command" is *NOT* in any of these prepare_* helper functions, but after these two callers in start_command() receives the prepared command from these helpers, namely: diff --git c/run-command.c w/run-command.c index 1b821042b4..9d0fa6afe4 100644 --- c/run-command.c +++ w/run-command.c @@ -745,6 +745,7 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd) error_errno("cannot run %s", cmd->args.v[0]); goto end_of_spawn; } + /* Here show argv in the trace */ if (pipe(notify_pipe)) notify_pipe[0] = notify_pipe[1] = -1; @@ -912,6 +913,7 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd) cmd->args.v = prepare_git_cmd(&nargv, sargv); else if (cmd->use_shell) cmd->args.v = prepare_shell_cmd(&nargv, sargv); + /* Here show cmd->args.v in the trace */ cmd->pid = mingw_spawnvpe(cmd->args.v[0], cmd->args.v, (char**) cmd->env.v, We would not have to do so and instead have trace-printf(s) only in prepare_cmd() if/when the Windows side is updated to stop switching between the prepare_git/prepare_shell and instead let prepare_cmd() do the switching, (which may require an update to prepare_cmd() if needed). But until that happens, logging at the caller seems to be the best approach among equally bad ones. Thanks.