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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
Cc: 9480@debbugs.gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#9480: 24.0.50; (vc-git) stash@{n} - requires shell quoting?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:56:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R357z-0006qA-8e@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874o0iq8rj.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Antoine Levitt on Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:50:56 +0200)

> From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:50:56 +0200
> 
> 12/09/11 13:22, Jambunathan K
> >> Yes, I see the problem, but now I wonder how come users of Posix
> >> platforms didn't see it.  Does it happen if your shell-file-name is
> >> set to "sh", not "bash" (assuming the Cygwin Bash comes with such an
> >> executable or a link)?
> >
> > sh and bash are apparently one and the same executable.
> 
> Bash runs in sh compatibility mode when invoked with "sh". From man bash:
> 
>        If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the
>        startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as
>        possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.

Right.  So results could be different, even though it's the same
binary.  Jambunathan, please try that if you can.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-12 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12  7:09 bug#9480: 24.0.50; (vc-git) stash@{n} - requires shell quoting? Jambunathan K
2011-09-12  7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-12  9:05   ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-12 10:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-12 11:22       ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-12 11:50         ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-12 11:56           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-13  4:46             ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-13  1:39         ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-13  4:03       ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-13  4:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13  5:14           ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-13  6:17           ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-13  6:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13 18:05               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-13 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-13 15:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13 18:21     ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-14 10:58       ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-14 11:57         ` Eli Zaretskii

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