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run-command: add "use shell" option
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:53:16 +0000 (05:53 -0500)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:53:46 +0000 (17:53 -0800)
commit8dba1e634af1d973a47fca616a63e7062a256790
tree377f420098f214f106fddb395f7280c0336b48b9
parent902f235378cb2b2f6dd5dd664b9630c95321f0ae
run-command: add "use shell" option

Many callsites run "sh -c $CMD" to run $CMD. We can make it
a little simpler for them by factoring out the munging of
argv.

For simple cases with no arguments, this doesn't help much, but:

  1. For cases with arguments, we save the caller from
     having to build the appropriate shell snippet.

  2. We can later optimize to avoid the shell when
     there are no metacharacters in the program.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
run-command.c
run-command.h