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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Not patching shebang in git hook samples ?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:04:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tq1x47l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170122130124.GA25096@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:01:24 +0100")

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> The git package ships with a number of sample hook files.  These are shell scripts and
> therefore the #!/bin/sh line gets substituted at  build time.
>
> However these files get installed into every git repostory that is created, and users
> are invited to use them as templates for their own hooks.
>
> This will be fine until both git and bash are updated.  Now the original bash is free
> to be garbage collected.  If that happens, the path: 
> #!/gnu/store/qkw4zrwfybxww8f56nkb6hggxambk89b-bash-4.4.0/bin/sh
> will no longer exist.
>
> I suggest what we turn off the shebang patching for the files in share/templates for git.

Agreed, it’s a bug.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22 13:01 Not patching shebang in git hook samples ? John Darrington
2017-01-23 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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