Re: git rebase regression: cannot pass a shell expression directly to --exec

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Linus,

On Tue, 16 May 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >
> > I think the logic here would be more like:
> >
> >   1. During prepare_shell_cmd(), even if we optimize out the shell call,
> >      still prepare a fallback argv (since we can't allocate memory
> >      post-fork).
> >
> >   2. In the forked child, if we get ENOENT from exec and cmd->use_shell
> >      is set, then exec the fallback shell argv instead. Propagate its
> >      results, even if it's 127.
> >
> > That still means we'd prefer a $PATH copy of a command to its shell
> > builtin variant, but that can't be helped (and I kind of doubt anybody
> > would care too much).
> 
> I think it would be better to just
> 
>  (a) get rid of the magic strcspn() entirely
> 
>  (b) make the 'can we optimize this' test be simply just looking up
> 'argv[0]' in $PATH

What about

	ABC=1 my-executable my-arg

Ciao,
Dscho