Eric Wong wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why can't git use e.g. posix_spawn to avoid this?
>
> posix_spawn does not support chdir, and it seems we run non-git
> commands so no using "git -C" for those.
On the other hand, a number of the non-git commands we run are in a
shell. At the cost of a wasted shell process, other commands can
be spawned using posix_spawn by passing the chosen directory and
command to
sh -c 'cd "$1" && shift && exec "$@"' -
[...]
> I posted some notes about it last year:
>
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20160629200142.ga17...@dcvr.yhbt.net/
Thanks for these notes.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
