Re: [PATCH] perl shebangs: Use /usr/bin/env, not /usr/bin/perl

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 15:15, Peter Kjellerstedt
[off-list ref] wrote:

This does not work. You cannot give arguments to an application
started via /usr/bin/env; it will interprete everything after
/usr/bin/env as the application name and fail with:

Doh'oh. You're right of course. I just tested it on the command-line
and by executing the scripts (Perl interprets the shebang itself):

    $ /usr/bin/env perl -w -le 'print $^W'
    1

However. Isn't Perl 5.6 the lowest version Git aspires to be
compatible with anyway? If that's the case they can just be changed to
'use warnings' across the board.