This avoids invoking the shell. Not only is it faster, but it prevents the possibility of interpreting our arguments in the shell. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- Nigel reported a problem with a CVS branch that had '(' in the name. No report yet on whether this fixes it, but it should be done regardless. I checked over git-cvsimport.perl, and this was the only instance I found. git-cvsimport.perl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl index 95c5eec..bdac5d5 100755 --- a/git-cvsimport.perl +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ sub commit { waitpid($pid,0); die "Error running git-commit-tree: $?\n" if $?; - system("git-update-ref $remote/$branch $cid") == 0 + system('git-update-ref', "$remote/$branch", $cid) == 0 or die "Cannot write branch $branch for update: $!\n"; if ($tag) { -- 1.5.5.1.178.gc1eb9.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html