On Jul 16 2024, Jeff King wrote: > Again, it's possible that we could detect that no shell metacharacters > are in play and do the word-splitting ourselves. But at that point I > think it should go into run-command's prepare_shell_cmd(). This is what GNU make does (see construct_command_argv_internal), for performance reason. But run_command is probably not performance critical. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."