From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <r@artagnon.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Miriam R." <mirucam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git bisect bad @
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:40:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr19biinm.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bc73981-589e-20e5-247b-2f74e166ae1a@web.de> ("René Scharfe"'s message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:55:53 +0100")
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
> The implementation language of git bisect is not immediately relevant
> here, but that the shell is used to call the user-supplied bisect run
> script is. If we'd run it directly (without RUN_USING_SHELL) we could
> distinguish error code 126/127 from execution errors.
Yes, but it means that we'd need to reimplement command line
splitting, environment and variable substitutions, etc. in a
way that people expect from executing their run "script" with
a shell.
I'd rather not to see us go there.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-13 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-09 19:29 git bisect bad @ Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-09 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-09 20:48 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-10 9:01 ` [PATCH] bisect: report actual bisect_state() argument on error René Scharfe
2022-01-10 10:04 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-10 17:06 ` git bisect bad @ Junio C Hamano
2022-01-10 21:04 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-12 9:04 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-12 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-12 18:34 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-13 5:10 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-13 9:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-13 12:28 ` Christian Couder
2022-01-13 13:55 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-13 15:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-14 7:47 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-14 8:04 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-01-18 12:45 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-14 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-13 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-01-18 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] bisect--helper: report actual bisect_state() argument on error René Scharfe
2022-01-18 12:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] bisect--helper: release strbuf and strvec on run error René Scharfe
2022-01-18 12:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] bisect: document run behavior with exit codes 126 and 127 René Scharfe
2022-01-18 12:46 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] bisect--helper: double-check run command on exit code " René Scharfe
2022-01-19 2:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-19 7:52 ` René Scharfe
2022-02-04 0:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-02-04 17:16 ` René Scharfe
2022-02-04 18:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2022-02-04 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-02-04 18:09 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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