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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2013-11-25 13:03:52 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-11-26 14:23:56 -0800
commit11d62145b904b81013d1ad558d68a74e22e81a91 (patch)
treea003885d1479a00f31bfbb44c090b6f7528cfadb
parentc74c72034f061d1d9d5b8b1fba20ce0138d423b4 (diff)
downloadgit-11d62145b904b81013d1ad558d68a74e22e81a91.tar.gz
remove #!interpreter line from shell librariesjn/scripts-updates
In a shell snippet meant to be sourced by other shell scripts, an opening #! line does more harm than good. The harm: - When the shell library is sourced, the interpreter and options from the #! line are not used. Specifying a particular shell can confuse the reader into thinking it is safe for the shell library to rely on idiosyncrasies of that shell. - Using #! instead of a plain comment drops a helpful visual clue that this is a shell library and not a self-contained script. - Tools such as lintian can use a #! line to tell when an installation script has failed by forgetting to set a script executable. This check does not work if shell libraries also start with a #! line. The good: - Text editors notice the #! line and use it for syntax highlighting if you try to edit the installed scripts (without ".sh" suffix) in place. The use of the #! for file type detection is not needed because Git's shell libraries are meant to be edited in source form (with ".sh" suffix). Replace the opening #! lines with comments. This involves tweaking the test harness's valgrind support to find shell libraries by looking for "# " in the first line instead of "#!" (see v1.7.6-rc3~7, 2011-06-17). Suggested by Russ Allbery through lintian. Thanks to Jeff King and Clemens Buchacher for further analysis. Tested by searching for non-executable scripts with #! line: find . -name .git -prune -o -type f -not -executable | while read file do read line <"$file" case $line in '#!'*) echo "$file" ;; esac done The only remaining scripts found are templates for shell scripts (unimplemented.sh, wrap-for-bin.sh) and sample input used in tests (t/t4034/perl/{pre,post}). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--contrib/completion/git-completion.bash2
-rw-r--r--contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh2
-rw-r--r--git-mergetool--lib.sh3
-rw-r--r--git-parse-remote.sh4
-rw-r--r--git-rebase--am.sh3
-rw-r--r--git-rebase--interactive.sh9
-rw-r--r--git-rebase--merge.sh4
-rw-r--r--git-sh-i18n.sh5
-rw-r--r--git-sh-setup.sh9
-rw-r--r--t/test-lib.sh6
10 files changed, 19 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index dba3c15700..be61931627 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!bash
-#
# bash/zsh completion support for core Git.
#
# Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh b/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
index eaacaf0c3e..6104a42a23 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!tcsh
-#
# tcsh completion support for core Git.
#
# Copyright (C) 2012 Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@gmail.com>
diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
index a280f49817..c45a020301 100644
--- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# git-mergetool--lib is a library for common merge tool functions
+# git-mergetool--lib is a shell library for common merge tool functions
: ${MERGE_TOOLS_DIR=$(git --exec-path)/mergetools}
diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
index 0e87e0915e..55fe8d56c9 100644
--- a/git-parse-remote.sh
+++ b/git-parse-remote.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This is a shell library to calculate the remote repository and
+# upstream branch that should be pulled by "git pull" from the current
+# branch.
# git-ls-remote could be called from outside a git managed repository;
# this would fail in that case and would issue an error message.
diff --git a/git-rebase--am.sh b/git-rebase--am.sh
index 34e3102fcb..a4f683a5d7 100644
--- a/git-rebase--am.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--am.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell script fragment is sourced by git-rebase to implement
+# its default, fast, patch-based, non-interactive mode.
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Junio C Hamano.
#
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 3c6bed9a28..43c19e0829 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell script fragment is sourced by git-rebase to implement
+# its interactive mode. "git rebase --interactive" makes it easy
+# to fix up commits in the middle of a series and rearrange commits.
#
# Copyright (c) 2006 Johannes E. Schindelin
-
-# SHORT DESCRIPTION
-#
-# This script makes it easy to fix up commits in the middle of a series,
-# and rearrange commits.
#
# The original idea comes from Eric W. Biederman, in
# http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/22407
diff --git a/git-rebase--merge.sh b/git-rebase--merge.sh
index 16d18176ec..e7d96de9ad 100644
--- a/git-rebase--merge.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--merge.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell script fragment is sourced by git-rebase to implement
+# its merge-based non-interactive mode that copes well with renamed
+# files.
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Junio C Hamano.
#
diff --git a/git-sh-i18n.sh b/git-sh-i18n.sh
index 6a27f68136..e6c3116e18 100644
--- a/git-sh-i18n.sh
+++ b/git-sh-i18n.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell library is Git's interface to gettext.sh. See po/README
+# for usage instructions.
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
#
-# This is Git's interface to gettext.sh. See po/README for usage
-# instructions.
# Export the TEXTDOMAIN* data that we need for Git
TEXTDOMAIN=git
diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index ebfe8f7a4d..190a5394b9 100644
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# This is included in commands that either have to be run from the toplevel
-# of the repository, or with GIT_DIR environment variable properly.
-# If the GIT_DIR does not look like the right correct git-repository,
-# it dies.
+# This shell scriplet is meant to be included by other shell scripts
+# to set up some variables pointing at the normal git directories and
+# a few helper shell functions.
# Having this variable in your environment would break scripts because
# you would cause "cd" to be taken to unexpected places. If you
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index c306bd0668..c3e07b9e16 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -573,11 +573,9 @@ then
make_valgrind_symlink () {
# handle only executables, unless they are shell libraries that
- # need to be in the exec-path. We will just use "#!" as a
- # guess for a shell-script, since we have no idea what the user
- # may have configured as the shell path.
+ # need to be in the exec-path.
test -x "$1" ||
- test "#!" = "$(head -c 2 <"$1")" ||
+ test "# " = "$(head -c 2 <"$1")" ||
return;
base=$(basename "$1")