On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi kusma, > > On 2015-08-12 13:58, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin >> <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-08-11 22:51, Johannes Sixt wrote: >>>> Invoking plink requires special treatment, and we have support and even >>>> test cases for the commands 'plink' and 'tortoiseplink'. We also support >>>> .exe variants for these two and there is a test for 'plink.exe'. >>>> >>>> On Windows, however, where support for plink.exe would be relevant, the >>>> test case fails because it is not possible to execute a file with a .exe >>>> extension that is actually not a binary executable---it is a shell >>>> script in our test. We have to disable the test case on Windows. >>> >>> Oh how would I wish you were working on Git for Windows even *just* a bit >>> *with* me. At least I would wish for a more specific description of the >>> development environment, because it sure as hell is not anything anybody >>> can download and install as easily as Git for Windows' SDK. >>> >>> FWIW Git for Windows has this patch (that I wanted to contribute in due >>> time, what with being busy with all those tickets) to solve the problem >>> mentioned in your patch in a different way: >>> >>> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/2fff4b54a0d4e5c5e2e4638c9b0739d3c1ff1e45 >> >> Yuck. On Windows, it's the extension of a file that dictates what kind >> of file it is (and if it's executable or not), not the contents. > > Careful. If you continue along those lines, interactive rebase, `git add -p` > and all those wonderful scripts Git has will have to stop working. > > Because those scripts completely disagree with what you just said about > Windows if you think about it: *none* of them has an extension. > > I know that you do not mean this, of course, but that is the argument you > were making... ;-) >
You should know better than to straw-man like that. I was not arguing to break any current functionality, but to not move further away from Windows' semantics. But if I would have, there's nothing that would stop us from renaming those scrips to *.sh, and let the filename dictate how to execute them. Or provide batch-files to wrap them. >> If we get a shell script written with the ".exe"-prefix, it's considered as >> an invalid executable by the system. > > And if we get a shell script without any `.exe` suffix, it is still > considered as an invalid executable by the system. Nope, it's considered an unknown file, not an executable at all. > And even if we tack on an `.sh` suffix (which is *not* in line with the way > Git works), it is *still* considered as an invalid executable by the system. That's not necessarily true; the Git for Windows installer (optionally, but on by default) registers /bin/sh as a file-handler for .sh files. Windows knows just fine how to execute them, unless the user opts out. But again, I was not arguing to patch git to not parse the shebang. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
