Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> writes: >> I would expect this to work in practice as I've never seen a Unix >> machine without /bin/sh, but I suppose strictly speaking we cannot rely >> on /bin/sh. Is it portable enough? I suppose we could have a configure >> variable based on CONFIG_SHELL. Or have a configure variable based on >> PYTHON and write the hook in python. Or perhaps compile some C to >> produce an executable and use that by copying it into the repository. > > That last would probably the safest thing to do; after all, if we can > produce binaries, we can write portable hook scripts, too.
I committed the test using /bin/sh, anything else is a lot more work and possibly more likely to fail than to find a system without /bin/sh. -- Philip Martin | Subversion Committer WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*
